[tex-live] Changes for 2010?

Leo sdl.web at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 02:05:06 CEST 2010


On 2010-04-19 23:26 +0100, Karl Berry wrote:
>     Already discussed several times, they don't bring much advantage at all,
>
> While this is true, the fact is, people want them and Dick is building
> them.  So providing them has the non-technical advantage that people
> will stop asking about them :).  The technical advantage is that people
> have reported some (not most) documents running noticeably faster
> (meaning 1 second instead of 2, as far as Dick and I can tell, but anyway).
> 
> So I expect we will include 64-bit Snow Leopard binaries in TL'10.  This
> is better than continuing the separate distribution we did last year,
> since the additions of new scripts, etc., in the bin dir can be managed
> as usual.

Great! That would remove the only 32bit software from my list.

> Resistance is futile,
> karl


Thanks.

Leo



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