On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > I'm going to defer working on [Perl & Ruby]. > > > > > we dont't need full perl and ruby; perl only when you want to use > > mptopdf, which is not needed because texexec can do the same; so, a > > small ruby is enough
Is it also possible to use MK IV (or some other lua scripts) to convert .mp files to PDF by any chance? (I'm only asking - this is not a feature request.) > So does anyone on the list have any experience in packaging a > stripped-down Ruby? Packaging ruby: you only unzip it and set the path. A stripped-down ruby: probably parsing (even if manually) ruby scripts from ConTeXt to determine which packages are needed, and delete the rest of the tree/ruby libraries :) I'm sure that not the whole 70 MB of ruby are needed to run ConTeXt. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
