On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Because we want to allow MacTeX installed outside of MacPorts to > satisfy the dependency. This is an exception to the usual rule, > because TeX is hard to build and the MacPorts TeX ports tend to lag > far behind TeX releases. And I'm told by those who use TeX that MacTeX > is pretty good.
On that note, what is the state of the MacPorts TeX ports? Are there major open issues? (If this question has already been beaten to death, apologies; I only started reading this list a couple weeks ago. Pointers to other threads or tickets are appreciated.) I'm a pretty heavy TeX user (what academic isn't?) and, all other things being equal, I'd prefer to stick to texlive for compatibility with my Linux/BSD systems that use it. I haven't run into any problems with the ports yet, though I only recently started using them and haven't done much serious tex hacking yet. I'd be happy to work on this a bit, although obviously how much would depend on what needs to be done and what my calendar looks like for the next couple months. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports <[email protected]> Research Henchman Massachusetts Institute of Technology <[email protected]> Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
