2011/10/20 Chris Travers <chris.trav...@gmail.com>: > 2011/10/20 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>: > >> It would be a good way if the native packages were up-to-date and if >> they allowed me to install not only the current version but even older >> versions. As a matter of fact, I first verify that everything works >> and after that I switch PATH. Twice I needed to test a document with >> an old TL because I found that it does not work with the current >> version. This is the greatest benefit of TL. I know what I am writing. >> It happend several times that the native package of Octave included an >> incompatible change. Two such upgrades were so nasty that each of them >> forced me to spend two weeks of work just to make my code running. >> > > BTW, that's *exactly* why you don't want to update existing important > systems once they are shown to be working without extensive testing > and staging, and why staying on older versions for working systems > that automatically generate documents is usually the wise course of > action. > There are two big reasons for update:
1. The new hardware is not supported by the old Linux distro 2. The necessary SW is not available as a package for the old distro and cannot be compiled from SourceForge sources because glibc in the distro is obsolete Of course, I never update anything in a middle of an important task. That's why I still have CentOS 4 on one of my computers. > Best Wishes, > Chris Travers > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex