[TxMt] Re: sudden latex tidy and latex compiling errors

Allan Odgaard mailinglist at textmate.org
Wed Feb 11 13:41:04 UTC 2015


On 11 Feb 2015, at 20:01, René Schwaiger wrote:

>> Is it possible to place the YAML library in the bundle’s support 
>> folder and add that to perl’s include path?
> I just did that in the latest commit [GitHub]. Thanks for the helpful 
> suggestion.

Thanks for making the change! :)

> I would like to remove the library code from the bundle sometimes in 
> the future tough. Is there a nice way to install external dependencies 
> via TextMate? […]

There is not, and I also question the wisdom of doing that.

If you install something on the user’s system, there is a good chance 
that a) they will never update it and b) they will not know how to 
uninstall it (should they later not want the thing that installed it). 
And installing things globally can cause conflicts.

So I definitely recommend having the non-standard dependencies isolated 
in the bundle. Of course if there is a chance that the user is a CPAN 
user who is on top of updating their libraries, one could prefer to look 
for the library in the standard system path, before using the bundled 
version.


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