[tex-live] slight glitch on windows
Lars Madsen
daleif at imf.au.dk
Thu Jul 12 13:20:29 CEST 2012
Siep Kroonenberg wrote, On 2012-07-12 13:12:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:31:46PM +0200, Lars Madsen wrote:
>> I just did a test installation of TL12 on Windows 7
>>
>> I notice there is a tool in the TeX Live 2012 menu called
>>
>> TeX Live command line
>>
>> If I open that tool
>>
>> it is a standard command prompt, but the title of the window is still
>>
>> TeX Live 2011
>
> This has been noted and should be fixed soon.
thanks
>> BTW: are we still having these random perl crashes on Win XP, where
>> the perl interpreter crashed during the TL installation
>>
>> A user reported problems on her Win XP home edition.
>>
>> Are we any closer to know why this happens? My Win 7 test laptop
>> installed TL12 without a hitch in ~45min
>
> If you get a dialog `Perl has stopped working' then there is a button
> for viewing particulars. You can even copy and paste the displayed
> text to an editor, at least on w7.
>
> I got the perl has stopped working problem on a w7 virtual machine.
> In this particular case the problem was with Tk, the GUI module but
> that was all I could figure out.
>
The interesting thing is that we never see this on our test win pcs.
Only 'real life' pcs.
Some posts on the web have suggested using a different type of perl.
It is just anoying, specially we this is what I recommend to all users:
install TL.
--
/Lars Madsen
DK-TUG President
Maintainer of memoir and the mh bundle
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