[tex-live] external perl on win32
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Dec 15 22:59:30 CET 2010
On 15 December 2010 Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2010/12/15 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> >
> >
> > T T wrote:
> >
> >> We plan to introduce an explicit option to enable search for an
> >> external Perl with a default value set to disabled. Are there any
> >> users relying on the current behaviour, who would not welcome that
> >> change?
> >
> > I would normally expect to have Active Perl on a PC prior to
> > installing TeX Live, but I cannot envisage any situation in
> > which I rely on this fact.
> >
> One year ago I tried to run quite a simple Perl/Tk program on a
> WinXP computer with Active State Perl and it crashed when
> displaying the very first window. I grabbed Strawberry Perl from TL
> repository and it works fine. I am afraid that it is difficult to
> know whether the installed Perl is complete enough. It is possible
> to write a perl script that will test whether everything is
> available but it will be a lot of work.
What do you mean? A Perl script which checks whether everything is
available it needs itself, or a Perl script which checks whether
everything is available what _another_ Perl script needs?
The first case is not so interesting because we can't change other
people's programs. And the only benefit I see is that it allows to
provide a more comprehensible error message.
If you have the second case in mind, what would you do?
Regards,
Reinhard
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