Am Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:36:37 -0500 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>:
> On 2/20/20 5:36 AM, Kornel Benko wrote:
> > Am Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:40:27 +0100
> > schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org>:
> >
> >> Le 19 février 2020 21:47:05 GMT+01:00, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> a
> >> écrit :
> >>>> I'm trying to remember why LyX needs Perl on Windows. If it were
> >>>> possible to avoid it, that would be worth doing.
> >>> Texlive has many perl scripts (in TL19 ~ 237).
> >> If it does, I guess it provides the relevant interpreter, doesn't it ?
> >>
> >> JMarc
> > No, why should it? If we provide lyx, we do not provide python.
>
> On Windows, we do provide Python. My understanding is that this is done
> because it otherwise can be difficult to make sure the right one is
> called, etc.
I stand corrected.
> We also provide Perl, but the question is why exactly we
> need to do that.
We need perl only if someone wants to use our tests via ctest.
But perl should have been installed already together with TeX.
> Riki
>
Kornel
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