[OS X TeX] basic etiquette

[Gerben Wierda]

On Nov 27, 2006, at 22:28 , Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 11/27/06, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
>> On Nov 27, 2006, at 13:10 , Victor Ivrii wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> The current TL (today) repository has 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 and not
>> 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 so it seems the pdfTeX authors have not yet
>> uploaded their new versions to TL.
>>
>> I follow TL and as far as I know, the authors of pdfTeX, XeTeX, etc.,
>> keep TL reasonably up-to-date.
>
> Then what exactly is TeXLive?
> In CTAN
>
> http://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/
>
> has
>
> Images/ 	2006-02-02 	contains: texlive
> Source/ 	2004-11-28 	
> install/ 	2006-09-02 	
>
> Images are created once per year.
> Source files are old. Install files are 2005-11-* and 2005-10-*  
> mainly.
>
> Where would appear pdftex 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 if the authors  
> uploaded it today?

There is a subversion (version control system) repository that is  
updated the year round. That is what I use. I think it is svn:// 
tug.org/texlive

G
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