Sebastian,
> Frank Mittelbach writes:
> > > came from a TeX Live CD. The next incarnation has no AIX binaries on.
> >
> > ouch -- wrong approach imho; the problem is already that too many
> > installations are incomplete (while texlive is more or less not:-)
> > taking away the binaries of some major platform is not going to
> > help the whole thing
>
> does anyone use RS6000s or AIX?
>
> so tell me what else to delete from TeXLive :-}
if you ask me: probably aix and even other sets of binaries, but i would
strongly vote for providing them ready to run outside the core CD, eg in a way
that the set of less used binaries is available for download (or via a second
CD) and can be installed without any pain
TeX has the mythos of running everywhere identically and TeXLive helps a lot
of providing this for various platforms (out of the box) --- this is an
important feature even though the need for alpha aix hpux ... might not be
that great, it is there
this is a bit like the people that check train usage and conclude that they
can make the last stop 3 stops before the current end because there are not
that many people on the train anymore (after a while they come to the same
conclusion a couple of stop earlier, guess why?)
> > > if anyone has a contact at IBM who wants to donate an RS6000 to the
> > > TeXLive project, I'm listening.....
> >
> > why not ask madame president?
> ok will do
>
> > or, if you like i can grep to they 10 years of mails and ask anybody with
> > ibm.com in it whether he would help to contribute a box for this
>
> tempting idea :-}
i could, but she could perhaps better
frank
