[tex-live] pretest'11 begin

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Tue May 31 09:33:48 CEST 2011


On Di, 31 Mai 2011, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> I may be able to help out there. Over the summer, I will redesign the tlcontrib backend so that it will not only provide .xz packages, but also:
> 
> - an ftp directory for uploads to ctan for both context and the context modules
> - subversion repository for use by the context minimals
> - raw .tar.gz files available from the website itself
> 
> There is no reaon why it would not be able to create .deb packages also.

That would be really a great thing. I have lost my way in the configuration
hell of context releases over the time, and if there is a reference
implementation that *actually* works I can try to copy it.

Best wishes

Norbert
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