Re: [HEADSUP Maintainers] _autorebase

2014-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 16 17:24, Achim Gratz wrote: What would be most helpful is to get a piece of documentation for us maintainers how to use the new _autorebase facility, sent with a fat HEADSUP subject, and which we can ideally add to setup.html. The _autorebase package is designed to require no

Re: [ITA] _autorebase

2014-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 16 16:11, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/16/2014 8:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: What would be most helpful is to get a piece of documentation for us maintainers how to use the new _autorebase facility, sent with a fat HEADSUP subject, and which we can ideally add to setup.html. More

Re: [ITA] _autorebase

2014-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 17 10:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 16 16:11, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/16/2014 8:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: What would be most helpful is to get a piece of documentation for us maintainers how to use the new _autorebase facility, sent with a fat HEADSUP subject, and which we

Re: [ITA] _autorebase

2014-12-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/17/2014 4:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 17 10:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 16 16:11, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/16/2014 8:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: What would be most helpful is to get a piece of documentation for us maintainers how to use the new _autorebase facility,

Re: [ITA] _autorebase

2014-12-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: Oh, and there's something else very important. The new technique requires the users to update setup.exe, otherwise they will get problems. We can't do much for people ignoring the this setup.ini has been created by a newer setup version message in setup itself, but

Re: [ITA] _autorebase

2014-12-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 17 18:01, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: Oh, and there's something else very important. The new technique requires the users to update setup.exe, otherwise they will get problems. We can't do much for people ignoring the this setup.ini has been created by a newer

Re: [ITA] _autorebase

2014-12-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: That should be fine, given the rather short list of affected maintainers: octave Marco Atzeri perl Reini Urban/Achim Gratz ?!? php Yaakov Selkowitz python Jason Tishler/Yaakov Selkowitz RMarco Atzeri ruby Yaakov Selkowitz As

Re: [HEADSUP Maintainers] setup.exe new postinstall facitilities

2014-12-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: More importantly, maintainers need to be told about the new kinds of postinstall scripts now supported by setup.exe. (Or maybe that's what you meant.) Here's my original proposal again for reference: --8---cut here---start-8--- 1. I'd

Re: [HEADSUP Maintainers] setup.exe new postinstall facitilities

2014-12-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
--8---cut here---start-8--- I love the little ASCII art scissors.

Re: cygport patches for TeX Live

2014-12-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/16/2014 6:08 PM, Ken Brown wrote: Sorry, there was a stupid mistake in one of the patches. The corrected one is attached. This is embarrassing, but there was a mistake in a second patch also. I'm reattaching the complete set of cygport patches, corrected. I had made some minor