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Joseph C. Slater wrote:<br>
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cite="mid617AD241-B5C6-11D8-A777-000393DC6D68@wright.edu"> <br>
On Jun 3, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote: <br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I wonder how MikTeX does this. After all,
TeX/CTAN/LaTeX packages are far from standardised in how they should
be processed for install. <br>
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If there is some system to it, I could implement this. <br>
<br>
G <br>
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Wow! Here's a message posted to this list from 3 years ago (remember
this Gerben?). Anyway, the way to do this may be to port MPM (The
MikTeX package manager) in some form. <br>
<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> • From: "Troy Goodson"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Troy.D.Goodson@jpl.nasa.gov"><Troy.D.Goodson@jpl.nasa.gov></a> <br>
• Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:23:41 -0800 <br>
At 3:56 PM +0100 11/16/01, Gerben Wierda wrote: <br>
>Sadly, the docstrip stuff is not standardized and often you need to <br>
>follow specific instructions in a readme to be able to compile tex <br>
>packages from docstrip sources and install. There are also no <br>
>standardized places, nor standardized items to do. There are only a <br>
>few who at least upgrade properly by locating existig instances <br>
>first. <br>
> <br>
>That is the reason why I do these things by hand, and then add them <br>
>to my distribution, to spare other people the setup. <br>
<br>
I didn't know the situation was quite this bad. OK, How about a <br>
LaTeX package manager a la fink? Essentially, this is a set of <br>
package-by-package rules for installing packages. Basically, we <br>
novice users depend on and trust the power users to write the rules. <br>
<font color="#ff0000"><b>The payoff is that novice users don't have
to become power users to <br>
simply install a package.</b></font> Of course, there will be some
'rare' <br>
packages that it doesn't know about and it the rules it has will <br>
always lag new releases of packages, but that's still better than me <br>
having to figure out the arcane rules of package management. <br>
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Now here is something that I can relate to!!!<br>
(I wanted to SHOUT it but …)<br>
Regards to all.<br>
--schremmer</blockquote>
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