Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> So… I already have a Texlive importer that fetches things from SVN > (because the tarballs on CTAN are not versioned). Awesome! > The texmf-dist tarball actually seems to include a couple of generated > files (such as latex.ltx), which needs to be bootstrapped with initex > first. I’ve already made some progress on this end, but I need to first > build a few metafont fonts. > > The hardest part here is to override search paths and figure out > dependencies. This is a very slow process right now, because it’s > mainly error-driven. Yeah kpathsea and all that. > I’m close to finishing the bootstrap of latex-base. Once that’s done I > should be able to finish the texlive-build-system, and then I’ll try > building the other latex packages that are distributed with Texlive. > There’s more to Texlive (e.g. xetex packages), but I’ll take care of > that later. > > One thing that’s still unknown at this point is how the profile hook > should work, but I’ll figure this out as I learn more about the search > paths and the like. OK, we’ll see. Thank you for this brave effort! Ludo’.
