[OS X TeX] Xindy

[Martin Costabel]

On 2 avr. 2004, at 09:13, Steffen Lund Hokland wrote:

>> I actually tried to build it for you, but it's not turn-key, and I'm 
>> not knowledgeable enough to figure it out in the time that I have. 
>> Sorry.
>
> Thanks for the effort - I imagine that it will be available through 
> FINK at some point....

You can put in a package request on Fink's package request tracker. But 
I wouldn't hold my breath. I had a look at this thing and found it 
pretty appalling (from a porting point of view). The project seems 
basically dead, it comes back from the grave once every 3 years or so. 
It uses Clisp, but doesn't work with any known contemporary version of 
CLisp. It has a home-grown build system that seems to be older than any 
of the contemporary tools that allow platform independence. And so on. 
Is it really worth it?

-- 
Martin

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