[OS X TeX] Re: End of i-Installer/i-Packages support per 1/1/2007

[Claus Gerhardt]

I had a look at the TeXLive homepage and the installation  
instructions. It seems to me that the installation from the CD/DVD is  
manageable for the individual user, and maybe Richard Koch, Jonathan  
Kew and others that I don't know, in their generosity, will continue  
to offer us  a hassle free tex installation disk MacTeX based on  
TeXLive.

Thank you Gerben for your work in the past years.

Claus

On Nov 11, 2006, at 18:28, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Nov 11, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Kirk Lowery wrote:
>
>>> I will try to leave the setup in such a state that someone else can
>>> take it up. I will also be available for advise *if* someone else
>>> takes it up but only to a certain level (e.g. I am not going to help
>>> people learn perl or Objective-C or Cocoa or etc.)
>>
>> A question, then, to the whole list: where do we go from here? Let's
>> assume no one takes up i-Package/i-Installer. It's now up to the
>> individual user to maintain his/her TeX installation directly from  
>> the
>> TeXLive collection, no? Or can we adapt some other distribution  
>> for OS
>> X?
>
>
> That is exactly my question. It doesn't seem likely that anyone  
> will pick up Gerben's work and run with it and the MacTeX installer  
> is also based on his work so that would no longer evolve either.
>
> I must say that I am more than a little concerned.
>
>
>> For example, I know that Gentoo (a "from the source code" locally
>> compiled distribution) is transitioning from teTeX to TeXLive. Or,
>> better, perhaps, a BSD distribution of TeXLive, if such exists?
>>
>> Or?
>
>
> Yes, or? :-)
>
> Regards,
>   Gary
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