On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:18:57 +0100
Uwe Koloska
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
For a larger project with ConTeXt that should not depend on the availability of perl. We needed a very large section of Texutil (--ref and --figures), so it made sense to port the entire program to C.
What about using another script language like TCL that can be made into a single file executable? The dependency seems to be
I knew how to get the job done quickly in C, not in TCL. Also there are some extra runtime requirements like: "not bigger nor slower than necessary". The C version runs quite a bit faster. The compiled C code is a lot smaller than including an interpreter. texutil.c links easily to tex.c (and tex.rb would have been a bit too much work ;)). etc. Incidentally: yes, I have a tex.c. That may in fact become GPL-ed sometime in the future, if and when our finished project deviates sufficiently from tex.c+texutil.c