Hi Gary!
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 02:35:01PM -0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > > > > I'm part of the TeX Live team that every (northern) winter produces a > > new release; many O/S distributions then take up that release and > > repackage it according to their preferences. > > That's probably what Openindiana would do too. All software products > installed on OI systems are installed from IPS packages, the same as > on Solaris. The packages are built from source. Binaries are of no > use for OI packages. > > First, though, there has to be demand for the software product. I, > myself, have no interest in Tex. In fact, I don't even know what Tex > is, except that it's used by mathematicians. I'm not one of those. I > have some doubts about the demand. I use it every day. :-) TBH it's a self-built version on Solaris 11.3. > [...] > > However, at Utah, I make a point of doing test builds for many more, > > and I can report that this year, with newer compilers on Oracle > > Solaris 11.4, there were few problems in building a complete TeX Live > > 2021 set of binaries. > > > > The current status report is here: > > > > http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/ > > I've read this quickly, and already see obstacles. OI packages have > some restrictions that may not arise when the software is installed > directly. TeX (in the form of TeXlive 2020) is available as an IPS package from the OmniOS "extra" repository, so packaging is no problem. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Solaris-based Systems Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
