[tex-live] Ruby interpreter in the TeXLive distribution?

[Richard Gabriel]

> hm, if one does a bit more than just plain text one needs all kind of 
> extras anyway (xml, graphics, viewing, etc)

Well, this is already a bit offtopic, I guess. 
But,  IMHO, the TeXLive distribution should contain everything needed to  process a *.tex file by the TeX (ConTeXt in particular). 
By the way, if you run for instance "texmfstart.exe texexec.rb" with no Ruby installed, it simply DOES NOTHING... :-(

-Richard

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From: Hans Hagen [mailto:pragma at wxs.nl]
To: David Kastrup [mailto:dak at gnu.org]
Cc: TeX Live production [mailto:tex-live at tug.org]
Sent: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:06:04 +0200
Subject: Re: [tex-live] Ruby interpreter in the TeXLive distribution?

David Kastrup wrote:
  > Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> writes:
  >
  >   
  >> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
  >>
  >>     
  >>> No need to provide these programs for UNIX.  But for Windows it's
  >>>   
  >>>       
  >> at least on my linux box, ruby did not get installed by default, so we 
  >> cannot assume it to be installed
  >>     
  >>> helpful if important programs are on the CD or DVD.
  >>>   
  >>>       
  >> ruby and perl for windows can be downloaded from several places and
  >> installation is no real problem.
  >>     
  >
  > Well, but having to install externally downloaded software sort of
  > defeats the idea of a live TeX system.
  >
  >   
  hm, if one does a bit more than just plain text one needs all kind of 
  extras anyway (xml, graphics, viewing, etc)
  
  Hans
  
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