On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:52 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > sorry to hear that, we've all gotten spoiled by the ease of > tetex. The elder folks among us remember the times before tetex, and > we remember mostly that we'd like to forget about them. :) > Thanks a lot for all these trouble-free years of texing! > > I hope tetex will be picked up and maintained under the same name and > quality. Maybe the whole load of it is too much for one person and > therefore a tetex developer group is needed? If a critical mass is > gathered maybe it has a chance. I could offer infrastructure for > collaborative work (trac/svn etc.).
I've been playing with the texlive src tarball from texlive 2005. It could almost be used directly as a substitute for tetex-src-3. The tetex-texmf part could potentially be created (on a system with a working tex obviously) with a shell script that uses a predefined set of ctan packages to then create a standard snapshot texmf tree for a distribution equivalent to what tetex currently provides.
