On 2/20/20 5:39 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 2/20/20 5:10 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Le 20/02/2020 à 11:36, Kornel Benko a écrit : >>> No, why should it? If we provide lyx, we do not provide python. >>> >>> OTOH, package 'texlive-binaries' needs perl for instance and package >>> 'texlive-base' wants >>> 'perl-tk'. >> Yes, it is the purpose of a texlive distribution: provide everything >> needed to make tools work. Hence my expectation that texlive on >> windows provides perl if it provides perl scripts. >> >> Actually it does: >> https://www.tug.org/texlive/windows.html >> >> It seems that MikTex does not do that, though. I am not sure it is LyX >> responsibility to cater for that. > I would propose then to remove Perl from the installer and point people > at the page mentioned for additional info. TeX installations should > manage their own dependencies, or not.
PS Probably it would be best to make that change for 2.4.0 rather than in the 2.3.x series? Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
