On 28.11.20 14:58, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not very knowegeable in this stuff, but in the meanwhile I've
prepared an appimage
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn8w5ebzo59pg5d/GNU_TeXmacs-1.99.16-x86_64.AppImage?dl=0
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/yn8w5ebzo59pg5d/GNU_TeXmacs-1.99.16-x86_64.AppImage?dl=0>
it seems to work (superficially) on my virtual Ubuntu.
Can somebody try it and tell me if it is ok also for them. I will add
the build recipe to the svn soon (this does not interfere in any way
with the other build procedures).
On Xubuntu 20.10 I obtain the error
execv error: Permission denied
Permissions are set to -rwxrwxr-x
Of course then each and every distribution can provide a specific fine
tuned package. But we do not have the resources to maintain all those
packages (and in my opinion we are not supposed to, not at least,
centrally). Unfortunately our dependence on guile 1.8 makes things
more complicated than needed... But the transition to Guile 3.0 will
not be fast, even if it is underway. It might well take another 1-2 year.
Alvaro, to me nothing is comparable to the ease of just downloading a
single file and running it. Most users (e.g. some of my students) are
not willing to spend time to learn a new tool (e.g. the guix package
manager) just to try to run TeXmacs.
Probably it could be enough a package for Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Fedora
(I do not find installation statistics, so I am guessing). Hopefully
someone that knows how to do these things can help out (helping with one
of the distributions might be affordable for someone who is familiar
with it).
Having the package in the standard repositories in addition to the other
options will convince someone to try the program.
G.
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