[OS X TeX] basic etiquette

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 13:10:42 CET 2006


On 11/27/06, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:


>
> What people are generally not aware of is that the TeX Live ISO that
> they are using is over a year old. So, depending on how you look at
> it, the edge is still somewhere else ;-)


According to CTAN, all TeXLive ISO distribution files

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/

were created 2006-02-01 (it definitely does not mean that what was
included was not created long before this). Because of this I decided
to wait with TeXLive transition until TeXLive 2006 which should be
probably 2007-02-01. I suspect that GW date of ending i-installer
support is connected with this date :)

At this moment GW binaries seem to be slightly off the cutting edge:
pdftex 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 instead of 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 the latest
stable and to keep packages I use up-to-date, I rey upon mpm and
myself rather than any distribution.

However, GW words about `more than 1 year old' confused me: any ideas
how new will be TeXLive 2006 when it emerges in February? Probably
pdftex 1.40 will not be included anyway.

                                                                      Victor




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