[tex-live] Perl for Windows

[Zdenek Wagner]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 gnwiii at gmail.com wrote:

>
> Is it really necessary to include perl and ghostscript in TL for
> Win32? What about ruby (used by the new ConteXt scripts)?  These are
> both readily available and easy to install on Windows XP. These are
> useful outside of TL and it is asking for trouble to include a
> version that is likely to break other tools.
>
If you wish to convert EPS images to PDF for use with pdftex via epstopdf,
you need perl. The script does nothing special so that any Perl5 will
work.


Zdenek Wagner
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