On 2021-01-24 08:29, Gary Mills wrote:
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.
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, Gary Mills wrote:
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.
While I
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
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
Great news below on building TeX live. Also please note that I don't question
or doubt, that it can be built;
But it must be maintained, somebody has to look after the updates and so on.
If for OpenIndiana it would be possible to simply "pkg install tex" or "pkg
install texlive" that would
> I use here the openCSW package, a little bit matured bu it works
But the openCSW package, is it getting updates that are automatically updated
then;
within an OpenIndiana "pkg update" if one updates the OpenIndiana system ?
There may be solutions (somebody suggested to simply compile texlive
