[OS X TeX] [Yale] i-installer directories

[Scott Murman]

huh, what has happened to Gerben re: i-installer?  can someone point  
to a thread or summarize?
losing i-installer w/o a viable alternative is a catastrophe.

-SM-

On Dec 18, 2006, at 11:46 PM, Stephen Anderson wrote:

> The end of the year approaches, and with it the end of Gerben's  
> support for i-installer and the packages it provides.  I'm somewhat  
> surprised that with all of the discussion this has provoked (mixed  
> in with revisitings of the editor wars of long ago, Micro$oft and  
> Adobe bashing, etc.) no one has said anything about the fate of the  
> servers from which the i-installer material is available.
>
> I'm the one whose server at Yale hosts both Gerben's "i-Directory  
> at Yale" and the "*EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory".  I have some qualms  
> about continuing to support this without Gerben (actively) behind  
> it, but after a bit of off-list discussion, I have decided that  
> these directories will continue to exist (with such updates as  
> Gerben may decide to make from time to time) at least through the  
> end of 2007 -- the hardware willing.  If some other person(s)  
> should take over the i-installer project, I invite them to write me  
> about taking over the administration of these directories on my  
> server as well.
>
> My understanding is that the operators of the other servers on  
> which Gerben's packages reside intend to do more or less the same  
> thing, though of course I can't speak for them.
>
> -- 
> Stephen R. Anderson
> Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics;
> Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science
> Yale University
> <stephen dot anderson at yale dot edu>
>
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