[tex-live] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: TeXLive Perl + latexmk (windows)]]

[Lars Madsen]

forgot the list again

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Subject: Re: [tex-live] [Fwd: Re: TeXLive Perl + latexmk (windows)]
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:44:47 +0200
From: Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>
To: George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com>
References: <4BC398CC.7050507 at imf.au.dk> 
<n2g22af238a1004130541jde618bcfj78c73f245344fd80 at mail.gmail.com>

George N. White III wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
> 
>> and I forgot the list
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeXLive Perl + latexmk (windows)
>> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:03:37 +0200
>> From: Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>
>> To: reinhard.kotucha at web.de
>> References: <4BC32DEC.4050903 at imf.au.dk>
>> <19395.14343.289829.772867 at zaphod.ms25.net>
>>
>> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>> On 12 April 2010 Lars Madsen wrote:
>>>
>>>  > Hi, the latexmk script needs the Digest perl package, which is missing
>>>  > in tlperl
>>>  >  > Rather unfortunate as I'm giving a talk tomorrow which include a
>>>  > latexmk demo
>>>
>>> Can't you use a Linux machine?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>  Reinhard
>>>
>> I'd like to, but most people are using windows, and we'd like more TL
>> users on windows.
> 
> If your Windows users have recent hardware you can use a Linux Virtual
> machine.
> 
> Where I work, Windows is the "standard", but we have "mission" critical
> apps that require linux.  Using unix tools on a bunch of Windows
> machines is a constant battle.   For scientific users many 3rd party
> apps install versions of perl, ghostscript, cygwin, etc so you never know
> what you will find on a randomly selected Windows box.
> 
> The Sage people are providing a VM for Windows users but it also
> gives a simple way to get sagemath on other platforms that have
> VirtualBox.
> 

way too complicated for people who just want to use latex and the tools
that comes with TeXLive


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