-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mojca Miklavec wrote: <snip> |> Our texshop package doesn't depend on |> TeX, for example, even though it relies on it. | | That would be handy for gnuplot as well. | |> I've been opposed to packages forcing people to install TeX just for doc |> generation. I think such packages should build their docs separately |> from the main build. In the case of gnuplot, though, I'm not 100% sure |> that it doesn't use TeX: there are a few TeX-related terminal types |> which may not be enabled if the package is built in the absence of TeX. | | I know a bit of gnuplot internals (I wrote a ConTeXt terminal for | gnuplot, based on the one for LaTeX and metapost), and neither of | those terminals depends on LaTeX (they are all compiled | unconditianally into gnuplot). The conditionally compiled terminals | include: X11, Aqua, Windows, wxt (depends on pangocairo, freetype | etc.), png/jpg (depend on glib), etc. ... (I can ask on the gnuplot | mailing list to confirm that if that would be of any help.) | | LaTeX terminal only outputs pure LaTeX (ascii) documents, without | trying to compile them. Of course one cannot compile the resulting | document without LaTeX (just as one cannot see SVG graphics without a | proper viewer), but that's not something for which gnuplot should | require TeX to be installed. The olny dependency I know about is | compilation of PDF documentation. | | I can understand that xetex or other packages (which were not in | teTeX, but are now in TeX Live) might require the proper TeX to be | installed, but for gnuplot this is really not the case. | | Mojca Thanks for the information on gnuplot. I'll investigate how to get it to build its docs separately and post back in this thread. I've just taken over maintainership of LyX (lyx-qt), and I would like to modify it not to enforce an explicit tetex dependency, either. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHoPQDB8UpO3rKjQ8RAt+eAJ45LQoANMFxjPgZZE+8kkIuyuK9egCfRA8Y 15yBGXMgXWyQ0q0d3ZIkfYw= =F6ED -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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