What about using another script language like TCL that can be
made into a single file executable? The dependency seems to be "no external reference" and not "no perl" -- isn't it possible to compile a perl prog into an executable?
both perl and ruby can be made into binaries
Essentially, we will have TeX and Texutil and bits of Texexec in a single executable, completely without disk-based versions of the tui and tuo file.
Will this be available for the public? From time to time the question aroses on this list to get a ConTeXt environment without installing a full TeX distribution -- maybe you will have the answer to this :-)
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip.bz2 22 M (works ok, all you need for context, run setuptex and you got your tree, fonts etc)
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/macosxtex.zip.bz2 22 M (untested)
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex.zip.bz2 22 M (works ok)
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.iso.bz2 120 M (unzips to an ISO which runs context + everything from cd, for the moment win, including perl/ruby)
Hans
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