[tex-live] TL: acrotex/acroweb

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:

> Victor Ivrii a écrit :
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Apparently, it could be done quite rapidly. This is currently under internal
>>> discussion/development.
>>
>> Would it work? MikTeX has mpc (miktex package creator). It would be
>> interesting to learn how many authors really used it. It does not
>> necessarily mean the same results for TeXLive.
>>
> Well, for the moment, we're just discussing how to allow tlmgr to
> install/update from more than one repository. What people put in this
> repository and how they manage to package it is another problem. For now I
> would assume packagers should just read the doc (included in TL) about the
> package management system and use whatever tools the find appropriate. (Our
> own scripts are public by the way.)

If you encourage people to create packages for things that aren't yet
in TL, there
will be some incentives for those people to organize things so it is
easier to create
packages.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia