Hi all,
Thomas Esser announced that there will be no upstream release of teTeX any more and suggested that people interested in teTeX should use TeX Live instead. The announce for it is placed on the official teTeX homepage:
The question is what to do now with the teTeX we have in Fedora. Michael A. Peters announced to me that he has started to create TeX Live clone as a replacement for the abandoned teTeX intended to replace teTeX in Fedora:
http://www.tetexrpm.org/texjive.html
The main issue while adopting TeX Live is that it has pretty huge texmf tree and many duplicities in documentation (PDF, DVI and PS files present in the same time for some styles...). The original teTeX kept more minimalistic variant of the texmf tree so I wrote Michael that we might consider replacing teTeX if the total size of the texjive packages will be less or equal to the current size of teTeX. Otherwise we'll choose another way how to replace teTeX.
Because of this, not all styles/fonts will be probably shipped in the new TeX variant in Core so the rest will be in Extras. At this point I'd love to have a feedback from you guys what styles/fonts you want to have in Core and which are better to be stored in Extras. It's the right time to discuss it now as we might want to have teTeX replaced prior to FC6 release.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Cheers, Jindrich
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:37:40PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
Because of this, not all styles/fonts will be probably shipped in the new TeX variant in Core so the rest will be in Extras. At this point I'd
Is there any reason for not pushing all of the new TeX into extras as part of the switch over ?
Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com) said:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:37:40PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
Because of this, not all styles/fonts will be probably shipped in the new TeX variant in Core so the rest will be in Extras. At this point I'd
Is there any reason for not pushing all of the new TeX into extras as part of the switch over ?
It's in the build chain of a bunch of stuff, IIRC.
Bill
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 06:49 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:37:40PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
Because of this, not all styles/fonts will be probably shipped in the new TeX variant in Core so the rest will be in Extras. At this point I'd
Is there any reason for not pushing all of the new TeX into extras as part of the switch over ?
From the maintenance POV I'd say that having the TeX packages separated
to Core/Extras parts just from the beginning would cause much less pain in the future as it needs to be split anyway. As the starting point we could have both Core and Extras packages in Extras for now, yes.
Jindrich
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 12:37 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
Hi all,
Thomas Esser announced that there will be no upstream release of teTeX any more and suggested that people interested in teTeX should use TeX Live instead. The announce for it is placed on the official teTeX homepage:
The question is what to do now with the teTeX we have in Fedora. Michael A. Peters announced to me that he has started to create TeX Live clone as a replacement for the abandoned teTeX intended to replace teTeX in Fedora:
http://www.tetexrpm.org/texjive.html
The main issue while adopting TeX Live is that it has pretty huge texmf tree and many duplicities in documentation (PDF, DVI and PS files present in the same time for some styles...). The original teTeX kept more minimalistic variant of the texmf tree so I wrote Michael that we might consider replacing teTeX if the total size of the texjive packages will be less or equal to the current size of teTeX. Otherwise we'll choose another way how to replace teTeX.
I should point out that on my hard disk, I've got updated version of what is there that is a little different.
I split the texmf into two src.rpm's - one intended for extras. The manner of the split was rather arbitrary - basically just stuff that was in my fat src.rpm but not in a TeX Live "standard" install (smaller than their default install).
This resulted in a set of RPMs that is just barely smaller than what is in core now (under 100MB) and a second RPM that would be sufficient for Extras.
I also figured out how to build the binary a little cleaner, IE so shared kpathsea library can be built at same time as static, and the bundled freetype isn't needed.
I'll try to polish it up and upload what I have.
Because of this, not all styles/fonts will be probably shipped in the new TeX variant in Core so the rest will be in Extras. At this point I'd love to have a feedback from you guys what styles/fonts you want to have in Core and which are better to be stored in Extras. It's the right time to discuss it now as we might want to have teTeX replaced prior to FC6 release.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Cheers, Jindrich