[OS X TeX] Three new MacTeX install packages
Maarten Sneep
maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Fri Nov 24 00:11:38 CET 2006
On 23-nov-2006, at 23:53, Enrico Franconi wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2006, at 17:31, Richard Koch wrote:
>
>> MacTeX_teTeX (based on Gerben Wierda's original distribution,
>> 332.1 MB)
>> MacTeX_GWTeXLive (based on Gerben Wierda's TeX Live version,
>> 377.4 MB)
>> MacTeX_TeXLive (the full TeX Live 2005 distribution, unmodified,
>> 596.4 MB)
>
> (...)
>
>> until texlive 2006 appears.
>
> Just as a matter of curiosity: why the customisations of TeXLive by
> Gerben (GWTeXLive) don't make their way up to the official Tex
> Live-2006 distribution? In the mid term, is there any need of a
> customised version of TeXLive for the Mac, or would it be better
> that the Mac community contributes to the official TeXLive
> distribution?
The main contribution by Gerben of TeXLive is creating a subset of
the whole installation, that corresponds roughly to the old teTeX +
gwTeX combination. A full TeXLive is a lot larger, and may be harder
to download. It is not a matter of adding the stuff Gerben did into
TeXLive, although some of the configuration may end up in TeXLive (in
a default installation). Think of setting the TEXMFHOME parameter to
~/Library/texmf rather than ~/texmf. Work on this is ongoing.
Maarten
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