[OS X TeX] Testing Hardened Runtime in Basic TeX: no texdoc in Basic TeX!

Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
Thu May 23 17:46:38 CEST 2019


But texdoc is really a stunning omission from BasicTeX.

> On 23 May2019, at 11:45 AM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> Murray,
> 
> I didn't expect that people testing would switch to BasicTeX for very long. Thanks very much for testing. Now get back to work!
> 
> This summer, perhaps in late June, I'll release the full MacTeX in a hardened version, and then if you like, you can test again, this time without all the disadvantages you endured.
> 
> Richard Koch
> 
> 
> 
>> On May 23, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> To my great surprise and horror, I just discovered that BasicTeX-2019-Hardened does NOT include texdoc (and hence also that the TeXShop Help > Show help for package menu item will not work, either).
>> 
>> That makes this BasicTeX a definite no-go for me.
>> 
>> I’m switching back to the full TeXLive-2019.
> 
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