Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 02.05.2007, 10:44 -0400 schrieb Derek Atkins: > Andreas Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Both problems can solved by using an environment variable like GNC_PERL > > (no, it does not work yet). The value could be /c/perl/bin/perl or > > wperl, respectively. I still wonder whether there is way to use > > GNC_PERL without > > > > * depending on the existence of wperl > > * using gnucash.bat, because actually I want to get rid of it > > * polluting the users environment variables without telling him > > (install-fq-mods.bat could ask and try, or recommend doing it yourself)
> Who installs perl/wperl? Don't we? Don't we SHIP perl as > part of our installer? The user. We do NOT ship perl, whether ActivePerl or some other: * The MSI installer packages are 16 MB (or 8 MB for AP 5.6) in size. Avoids bloating the setup.exe unnecessarily (OK, Qt is much larger ;-)) * Allow using a pre-installed ActivePerl * No need to think about licensing * No need to care about updating If there are cons for shipping ActivePerl other than "make it even easier than [1]", please tell me :-) > -derek -- andi5 [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows#Finance::Quote _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
