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. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
