[tex-live] ebong

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Jan 19 00:28:18 CET 2011


On 18 January 2011 George N. White III wrote:

 > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Reinhard Kotucha
 > <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
 > >
 > > I must admit that I'm not overly happy with scripts written in
 > > languages other than Perl or texlua.  Perl is already installed
 > > on all Unix systems because many system tools depend on
 > > it.  Thus, it's sufficient to ship a Perl for Windows with TeX
 > > Live.
 > 
 > May cause problems with other packages that also include perl and
 > adjust the PATH accordingly.

Did you encounter such problems yourself?  By default, the TeX Live
wrappers make sure that only the Perl shipped with TL is found by
the scripts they launch,  You'll find more information in

  bin/win32/runscript.tlu

Regards,
  Reinhard

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