[OS X TeX] TeX Live 2015 and MacTeX-2015

[Enrico Franconi]

BRAVO!
—e.

> On 12 Jun 2015, at 18:13, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 12, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 12-06-2015, at 03:55, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On all older systems of OS X, the 2015 versions of MacTeX and 
>>> Basic TeX create two links pointing to the binaries: 
>>> 
>>> 	/usr/texbin
>>> 	/Library/TeX/texbin
>>> 
>> 
>> Why not change the “/usr/texbin" to “/usr/local/texbin” ?
>> Or will that also no longer  be permitted?
>> 
> 
> Here’s more explanation than you want:
> 
> I watched the WWW keynote at home on June 8. That evening,
> I downloaded the El Capitan beta and discovered that MacTeX-2015
> didn’t work. I looked at the install log and saw that the system refused
> to define /usr/texbin when the postinstall script requested it.
> 
> The TeX Live 2015 DVD was scheduled to go to manufacturing
> on June 9.
> 
> I wrote to several developers, suggesting /usr/local/texbin, /Library/TeX/texbin,
> and some other possibilities. I also wrote Manfred Lotz, who handles the
> DVD, warning of this problem but adding “I know there is nothing we can do
> about it.” Then I went to bed.
> 
> At 3:00 in the morning, I woke up with the thought:  “All hope is lost unless
> you make a choice NOW and fix the installers.” A few developers had
> replied by then. One picked /usr/local/texbin and one picked /Library/TeX/texbin.
> From my point of view, /Library/TeX/texbin was a little safer and had the
> advantage that it is visible to the user in the Finder. So I picked it.
> 
> By noon on June 10, the new installers were in the DVD and on the web
> and after a lot of testing, Manfred agreed to use them.
> 
> Dick Koch
> 
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