How to package executables

[Takuto ASAKURA]

Hi Norbert,

> It was not Adam, he only answered to the thread about how to package
> and prepared a merged version - but that is from someone else.

sorry, I was careless.

> I disagree with both of you! Ok, so should we get rid of arara, latexmk,
> and maybe hundreds of other packages, too?

Well, I carefully not to say "TeX Live should not include Python packages"
or "Any user should not post a python package to CTAN" because I do not
think so. Instead, I just wanted to mention another option (in case the
usual python manner does really not work well with the TeX Live).
I believed there is no "disagree" on this.

> nobody in the TeX world will probably find it, while including it in TeX
> Live is natural.

I didn't think so, but is that so? That means, the TeX-related packages
on PyPI, which I mentioned in the last message, are almost invisible to
the people in the TeX world...

Anyway, it is good for me to confirm that TeX Live also welcome packages
written in Python and other languages.

Best,
Takuto

> On 2020/07/21, at 15:34, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:
> 
> Hi Takuto, hi Henri,
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, Takuto ASAKURA wrote:
>> sorry for break into the discussion, but may I ask why you want to put
> 
> It was not Adam, he only answered to the thread about how to package
> and prepared a merged version - but that is from someone else.
> 
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, Henri Menke wrote:
>> I second the opinion, that Python modules really should not be in TeX
>> Live.  As Takuto mentioned, there are already multiple channels for
> 
> 
> I disagree with both of you! Ok, so should we get rid of arara, latexmk,
> and maybe hundreds of other packages, too?
> 
> We don't distribute java, there are many other Python programs that are
> very useful.
> 
> That is not an argument. And putting the script into pypi is nice, but
> nobody in the TeX world will probably find it, while including it in TeX
> Live is natural.
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert
> 
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