[SM-Users] texlive vs. tetex

[Javier Vasquez]

Hi,

I've noticed tetex is a dependancy for several other spells, specially
documentation ones (mostly optional I believe). I checked in both
grimoires, test and stable, and got the impression that both are using
"tetex", the non supported anymore one (for more than a year now):

http://www.tug.org/tetex/
"De-support notice
I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time
goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live
project."

I think instead tex-live should be used:

http://www.tug.org/texlive

I don't know if the move could be transparent (I'm not a latex user),
however at least only one of the 2 should be present I think. The
major work could even be dependencies, since as I stated initially
I've noticed several dependencies.

Has any one looked into this already? Is there any
discussion/documentation about this?

Thanks,

["Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik"]

Post by Javier Vasquez
Hi,
I've noticed tetex is a dependancy for several other spells, specially
documentation ones (mostly optional I believe). I checked in both
grimoires, test and stable, and got the impression that both are using

Belive it or not we actually do try to keep track of it...

Post by Javier Vasquez
http://www.tug.org/texlive
Has any one looked into this already? Is there any
discussion/documentation about this?

And yes people have been looking into the various stuff...

But there is no reason to really bother about it as tex rarely get's any
commits/releases. Not to mention any bugs that would require constant
upgrades... The one thing that I'm interested in myself is a way to split
all the TeX spells into their own small parts so that users can get more of
a choice of what bits and pieces to install... But it's a PITA the last
time I tried doing that...

Also TeXlive is primarily distributed as an ISO that should be just burned
to dvd/cd and used like that...

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[Florian Franzmann]

Post by Javier Vasquez
Hi,

Hi,

Post by Javier Vasquez
I've noticed tetex is a dependancy for several other spells, specially
documentation ones (mostly optional I believe). I checked in both
grimoires, test and stable, and got the impression that both are using
http://www.tug.org/tetex/
"De-support notice
I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time
goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live
project."

as far as I know ruskie tried to build a texlive spell and gave up
because it was a mess.
Currently we are in the process of replacing the tetex and tetex-texmf
spells by packages build from ctan (for example latex-beamer has been
replaced by a more recent version in test). At the moment this is a
rather slow process since I do not have the time right know to put a lot
of work into it. If you are willing to contribute feel free to do so :)

Post by Javier Vasquez
http://www.tug.org/texlive
I don't know if the move could be transparent (I'm not a latex user),
however at least only one of the 2 should be present I think. The
major work could even be dependencies, since as I stated initially
I've noticed several dependencies.
Has any one looked into this already? Is there any
discussion/documentation about this?

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sm-commit/2007-April/010501.html

regards
Florian
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