Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:33:15 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:51AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:00:22 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of > > > duplication of effort). > > I have

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:51AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:00:22 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of > > duplication of effort). I have to add that I think that the chosen strategy (provide a full port a

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-15 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:00:22 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of > duplication of effort). In conclusion, that could be said about many other software that brings its own package management. Of course, LaTeX is a big and complex be

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-15 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 09/15/2013 02:00 PM, Roland Smith wrote: Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of duplication of effort). I installed TeXLive using its own installer long before it was present in the ports tree. Since TeXLive is very complete and self-contained, I don't have

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:22:12PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I use for my day to day work teTeX, but I run more and more into > several limitations due to the fact, teTeX isn't any more (and > regretably) maintained/developed by Th. Esser (that is what I know). Upstream teTeX has indeed been

Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-14 Thread O. Hartmann
I use for my day to day work teTeX, but I run more and more into several limitations due to the fact, teTeX isn't any more (and regretably) maintained/developed by Th. Esser (that is what I know). Well, TeXlive is now in the ports tree, but I had recently on a server, on which I tried to migrate,