On 2/7/07, Jens Noeckel wrote: > > Hi, > just a quick remark in case drm (the tetex maintainer) should read > this and come to the conclusion that nobody appreciates fink's tetex: > I've been using fink's tetex almost exclusively for 5 to 6 years and > see nothing wrong with it for any "reasonable" use. I've probably > customized it a little, but I rarely ever have to worry about my tex > installation because it "just works". I'm not trying to say tetex is > "the only tex you'll ever need" - but it's just not accurate to say > fink's tetex is "unusable". So thank you very much for keeping the > tetex package around, drm & co!
I'm sorry - I guess that I was slightly too inaccurate. Of course - tetex is and was great & stable - used on practially all the linux/unix/mac platforms. If something worked on one computer, it worked on another just as well. I regret it very much that it's not maintained any more - it was really a great piece of software. Now every platform needs its own TeX maintainer which is really bad - and probably with a consequence that tex will work slightly different on different platforms - include different (subsets and/or versions of) packages, different versions of binaries, different defaults and ways to set the distribution etc. I'm really thankful that there is at least TeXLive which is still alive ... But the problem is that teTeX is old. For very basic LaTeX usage (with no advanced packages) that's not a problem at all, but for ConTeXt users it's indeed useless to have the ConTeXt version which is two years old. (For my everyday work I need - and really need - at least the version from November 2006. When I request a new feature or contribute something, I usually get an answer in a few hours, at most two days, and that means that I cannot compile my documents with any older version any more.) Mojca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
