[OS X TeX] MacTeX 2011 tested on Lion?
Alan T Litchfield
alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Wed Jun 1 22:40:25 CEST 2011
Thanks Herb,
So if I get you right, anything from 10.5.x backwards will not be
supported on TL2011.
Alan
On 1/06/2011, at 11:10 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
> On May 31, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Alan T Litchfield wrote:
>
>>
>> On 1/06/2011, at 1:14 AM, Juergen Fenn wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> on the TeX Live pretest page we read that the vintage versions of
>>> Mac OS
>>> X Panther and Tiger will no longer be supported in MacTeX 2011.
>>
>> That's a shame. I keep an eMac running Tiger so I can run
>> apparently outmoded Classic apps.
>>
>> Hmmm. Vintage. Wonder what that makes me then...
>>
>> Alan
>
> Howdy,
>
> With Lion coming up (and Xcode 4 on the side line --- it doesn't
> even come with 10.5 support) it becomes more and more difficult to
> support OS versions that are >2 versions behind.
>
> The good new is that there will be a final MacTeX-2010 which has all
> the updates (via tlmgr/TLU) up to the recent freeze. Right now, with
> TL2010 frozen, it is still possible to do onw final update to
> TL2010. As far as I know, once TL2011 comes out the TL2010
> repository will be archived and tlmgr/TLU will not be able to update
> the system so this new MacTeX-2010 will give a Tiger user the best
> we can do. Updating will then have to be done manually.
>
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