On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote: >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> tetex is dead and buried. >>> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says: >>> ----------------------------------------------- >>> De-support notice >>> >>> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any >>> more (May 2006). >>> ----------------------------------------------- >>> >>> In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex. >>> >>> Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live. >> >> feel free to volunteer for packing it. > > Well, hold on there, cowboy. Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX > maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is to ask Jan to > update/switch cygwin's TeX system to TeX Live, and make the case for why > it should happen.
Tex Live will be another package, so it could have another maintainer. No one will complain about additional volunteers. ;-) TexLive has a peculiar installation, so making a cygwin package is not a trivial task. > > I think "teTeX has been dead upstream for five years" is a pretty good > argument, actually. using a typical CGF's answer: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI > > 'Course, we haven't heard from Jan since last Novemeber > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00422.html > so... > > Jan? You still there? following gmane, he seems busy with lilypond and mingw -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
