[OS X TeX] Tiger & TeX

Mohinish shukla at sissa.it
Fri Apr 15 16:34:16 CEST 2005


Hi all,
	I just tried installing TeXShop & Gerben's i-installation on one of 
the later betas of Tiger (not the final), and it worked totally fine.. 
(2004 stable, full install).
This is such good news for me, at least :)

Does anyone want me to try anything on the beta Tiger? (Time permitting)


-Mohinish




On 15 Apr 2005, at 4:24 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 4/15/05 3:20 AM, "Gerben Wierda" <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
>
>> The changes in Tiger are fundamental enough to want to drop support 
>> for
>> older Mac OS X versions.
>>
>> Core Data, better net-connections in Apple Frameworks (currently for
>> instance, FTP and proxies do not work in i-Installer because of the 
>> older
>> frameworks, the Panther frameworks offer alternatives but that would 
>> mean
>> dropping support for Tiger), HFS+-aware cli-tools, etc.
>>
>> Maybe it is time for a rewrite from the ground up to get i-Installer 
>> v3.
>> Tiger-only. And keep the current distribution available for Panther &
>> Tiger.
>>
>> If I only had the time to do it... ;-)
>>
>> G
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I've got my Tiger ordered through Amazon (with a mail in rebate!) but
> probably wont install it for several months and/or until 10.4.1 comes 
> out.
>
>> From what I see though it looks like the toolbar is gone from Finder 
>> Windows
> (is that true?) and you've GOT to use the sidebar now. I've got a small
> screen and windows with sidebars take up too much space. I've always 
> liked
> the toolbar which I use in small text only mode. Sigh... looks like not
> everything is an advance for me.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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