Thanks for the explanation. On my "newer" linux system should I expect to see any differences between the "x11" version currently downloadable from the web site:
http://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-x11-i386-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz versus your "qt" version TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433... ? On 9 April 2014 05:37, <r...@lix.polytechnique.fr> wrote: > Those versions are supposed to be 'universal' not link to a specific > distribution. They aim to provides TeXmacs for distributions which don't > have it and also to give opportunity to have a newer version without > recompiling. Else this versions could have some side effects like François > noticed it. > > I didn't fully test but I would say 'old' is before kernel 2.6. We > targeted distributions that are 10 years old. > >> Any hints about what old and new linux means in this context? Kernel? >> What version in major distributions, e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE ... >> Also, what advantages this version should have over previous? >> >> On 8 April 2014 10:47, Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoe...@texmacs.org> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Denis Raux has managed to create static binaries for the Qt version of >>> TeXmacs under Linux. >>> His packages can be used instead of standard packages provided by >>> various Linux distributions >>> in the case that users want the most recent version or if the TeXmacs >>> package is >>> not well supported in their favourite distribution. It would be nice if >>> as many volunteers under Linux as possible could try the new packages. >>> The first (A) link is for old Linux distributions, whereas you should >>> use the second (B) one for more recent versions of Linux. >>> >>> >>> ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433_8437-i386-pc-linux-gnu-A.tar.gz >>> >>> ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433-i386-pc-linux-gnu-B.tar.gz >>> >>> Installation is similar as for the classical binary distributions. >>> >>> Best wishes, --Joris >> > > _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
