[OS X TeX] Re: TeX Live (MacTeX) 2010 Developement has Started.

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 15, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
> 
>>> It may be true for bibtex.universal-darwin but definitely not true for
>>> asymptote: TL 2009 is with version 1.88 which became stable 2009-10-02
>>> which was after prerelease.
>>> 
>>> Victor
>>> --
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> It would definitely be interesting to know if there really was a binary update via tlmgr. I remember seeing several asymptote updates.
>> 
>> $ ls -al /usr/texbin/asy
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  13177648 Oct  3  2009 /usr/texbin/asy
>> 
>> and the tlmgr.log has the latest update to asymptote.universal-darwin as
>> 
>> [Wed Mar 10 07:40:39 2010] update: asymptote.universal-darwin (16044 -> 17389)
>> 
>> finally running
>> 
>> $ asy --version
>> Asymptote version 1.88 [(C) 2004 Andy Hammerlindl, John C. Bowman, Tom Prince]
>> 
>> so it's the 1.88 version.
>> 
> 
> Some of them were and some were not. Asymptote 1.88 became stable
> (look sourceforge) Oct 2, 2009, after Prerelease.
> 
> Current stable is 1.94 (and 1.95 in svn)
> 
> http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-January/024293.html
> 
> 
> Victor
> 
> PS I asked TL if it would be feasible to include in tlmgr.log the
> actual size of the download
> 
> 

Howdy,

Well, I don't remember the last time I actually downloaded an updated MacTeX-2009 installer and used if (I did this for personal testing that all is ok with the distribution) but I assume that Dick Koch re-synced with the source before building it and I know that building asy is a bit of a pain.

I'm pretty sure folks would find it quite painful to continuously rebuild things like asy as new stable releases come out for multiple platforms, etc.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)