Re: Obsolete TeX ports

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Ports
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 04:04:34PM -0800, Dan Ports wrote: > I plan to replace these ports with the corresponding texlive port, > along with the following which are up to date but nomaintainer: I've done this. Any objections to removing teTeX (and replacing it with texlive)? It's over 5 years uns

Re: Obsolete TeX ports

2010-12-29 Thread Dan Ports
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 06:11:47PM -0800, Dan Ports wrote: > I'm inclined to go through these and mark the abandoned ones as > replaced_by the appropriate texlive port. This would ensure we'd have a > reasonably up-to-date version. Are there any objections to this? After reviewing a bunch of ports

Re: Obsolete TeX ports

2010-12-29 Thread Dan Ports
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:12:32PM +0900, Takanori Yamamoto wrote: > pTeX in TeX Live 2010 works well in many cases. > I believe most of pTeX users can shift to TeX Live 2010. > > Strictly speaking, pTeX in TeX Live 2010 is not upper compatible > with port:pTeX. For instances, Thanks for the info

Re: Obsolete TeX ports

2010-12-28 Thread Takanori Yamamoto
> (Incidentally, pTeX itself is also available in texlive, with the > texlive-lang-cjk port, but I haven't tried it myself.) pTeX in TeX Live 2010 works well in many cases. I believe most of pTeX users can shift to TeX Live 2010. Strictly speaking, pTeX in TeX Live 2010 is not upper compatible w

Obsolete TeX ports

2010-12-27 Thread Dan Ports
We have a number of ports that install CTAN packages for TeX, which means they're also in TeX Live and thus also available in one of the texlive-* ports. Many of these ports are marked nomaintainer, have obsolete versions, or both. Probably they date back to the teTeX era. It's obviously confusing