[XeTeX] doc/samples available via i-Installer

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Mon Mar 14 18:11:48 CET 2005


Le 14 mars 05, à 17:48, Gerben Wierda a écrit :

>> [Jonathan Kew wrote:]
>>
>> So for now---and I know it won't make everyone happy!---I've modified
>> the i-Package so that it installs a "Documentation" and a "Samples"
>> folder, both within a "XeTeX-doc" folder. And the default destination
>> of XeTeX-doc is the user's desktop. At least it's obvious, and the 
>> user
>> is entirely free to put it elsewhere.
>>
>> I could add this to the main software installer, but I'm hesitant to 
>> do
>> that as I suspect that people will often want to update the software
>> without getting a new copy of the (usually unchanged) docs. However, I
>> will try and remember to add this stuff to the .dmg (not in an
>> installer package, in this case), so that people getting XeTeX that 
>> way
>> have the files readily available to put wherever they wish (or to
>> ignore).
>
> Adding it to the i-Package will give you some trouble. You can select 
> one
> install location there, not two. So if your install location is
> /usr/local/teTeX, you can only give subdirs of that or full paths for
> parts you want to have instaolled somewhere else. You do not know the 
> full
> path of the user installing.
>
> [relevant details, omitted for brevity of quotation]
>
> It is better for now that it is a separate install unless you want to
> install it in /usr/local/teTeX (= /Library/teTeX so the choice is not 
> all
> bad)

When suggesting a unique i-Installer i-Package for software and 
documentation, I didn't suspect such issues. It was a minor request, so 
please if that raises issues such as these don't pay attention to it.

Bruno Voisin



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