On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > Two questions came up when I was looking into putting ConTeXt on a USB > stick (i.e., as a "portable app"): > > 1. Is perl still required for a ConTeXt installation (say, under > Windows)? I know texexec is now written in Ruby, but are there other > programs in Stand-alone or the Minimals that require perl?
mptopdf at least ... But it might be possible to do without (I'm not sure - you need to try). If you put things on usb, it should be enough to set PATH properly, that's all. Neither perl nor ruby need a proper installation. > 2. I vaguely recall some mention of eventually replacing texexec with > a Lua version. Is this actually being planned, and would that > eliminate the external language dependencies of ConTeXt? Yes. You can already use "context" (see mtx-context.lua), though there is no stub yet (you can easily make one), and it's not so well tested yet. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
