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
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