John Ridgway wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > >> John Ridgway wrote: >>> Friends - >>> I have an interest in seeing that TeX remains available through >>> Fink, and I'm curious as to the status of TeX-related efforts in >>> the Fink project. (I looked through the archives of fink-devel >>> with nothing interesting poking it's head out at me.) >>> >>> Are there current plans as to what to do about TeX (since teTeX is >>> no longer supported)? If so, can someone point me to them? I am >>> willing to devote some time to making TeX work with Fink and will >>> think about it and make a proposal if no-one else is involved in >>> this right now. >>> >>> If there's something obvious that I'm missing, I apologize and hope >>> that someone will point me in the right direction. >>> >>> Peace >>> - John >>> >>> >>> >> We'll presumably keep teTeX around. By "unsupported" do you mean by >> upstream, or by Fink? We also have the ptex distribution. >> >> You're certainly free and encouraged to help. There has been >> interest expressed for texlive to be added to Fink. > > Upstream. Thomas Esser announced a while ago that he no longer had > the time to work on it and was abandoning it. > > I have already created (for my own use) a system-texlive package, and > modified a few other packages to use it. Creating texlive would be easy. > > The real issue would be to ensure that all of the packages that > currently depend on [system-]tetex would continue to work. It may be > appropriate to modify the set of provided packages. > > Peace > - John > Sounds like a plan--we've found it preferable not to try to integrate with upstream distros via a system- package because unexpected breakage can occur.
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