On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 5:35 PM Volker A. Brandt <v...@bb-c.de> wrote:
> 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 what Openindiana would do too. All software products > > installed on OI systems are installed from IPS packages, the same as > > on Solaris. The packages are built from source. Binaries are of no > > use for OI packages. > > > > 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. > > I use it every day. :-) TBH it's a self-built version on Solaris 11.3. > > > [...] > > > However, at Utah, I make a point of doing test builds for many more, > > > and I can report that this year, with newer compilers on Oracle > > > Solaris 11.4, there were few problems in building a complete TeX Live > > > 2021 set of binaries. > > > > > > The current status report is here: > > > > > > http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/ > > > > I've read this quickly, and already see obstacles. OI packages have > > some restrictions that may not arise when the software is installed > > directly. > > TeX (in the form of TeXlive 2020) is available as an IPS package from > the OmniOS "extra" repository, so packaging is no problem. > Packaging TeXLive needs some scripting to split tex packages by groups, otherwise you get a >= 1.5GB blob to install at once. I think the Debian Sciences team had developed such scripts to maintain their packages. I did package TexLive ~2015 in oi-userland but this was a lot of work to maintain ctan packages individually so it was never integrated. I ended up using the prepackaged TexLive suite for this reason. Being an applied mathematician/numerician and therefore avid user of TeX I would be very happy if TexLive were to be added to oi-userland. > > > Regards -- Volker > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Solaris-based Systems > Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ > Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: v...@bb-c.de > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 > Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt > > "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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