Creating a Chocolatey Package For TexLive

[Naveen M K]

Hi,

> And yet another devil's
> comment: you write that the maximum size of the package is 200 MB but
> the size of texlive-full is approx. 8 GB. And if a small part is
> udated, will the user have to upgrade texlive as such or incrementally
> just the modified part?

That 200MB limit is for amount of content inside the package included in it while we are free to download how much ever we want from the internet(CTAN).

> Remember that TeX Live is a collection of
> packages with a common infrastructure. If I upgrade my package as an
> author and upload it to CTAN and then it goes to TeX Live. This means
> that the individual packages have releases, the new infrastructure of
> TeX Live is released once a year.

The release can be changed once a month as it is done on Debian by @Norbert. He said in previous email that those are updated once a month or so.

>  May I play Devil's Advocate and ask why you claim "it would be good to have a Chocolatey Package [for TeX Live]" ? What problems do you find with the present installer, and would you not agree that if the current installer is sub-optimal then the obvious alternative (as far as TeX Live for Microsoft Windows is concerned) would be to re-write the installer as an MSI ("Microsoft Installer") file, with all the benefits that that would bring, including, of course, full support for uninstalling (Start / Control Panel / Programs and Features / Uninstall or change a program) ?

The main issue I face with the current installer is that it doesn't have an uninstaller. Creating an MSI would be nice and yes if it is done then creating the package would be as simple as installing that MSI. 


>  I too am a Windows user (Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit, multiple instantiations) and can see no benefits to choosing Chocolatey at all, when compared to MSI.

I like to do things in the command line(Don't ask me why you are not using Linux, sorry) and that's why I like chocolatey. I am not here to argue whether to use it.

The reason I created the thread is that there should be pre-compiled binaries rather than those compiled in the user's computer and also making the installation fast enough instead of using install-tl as did in Debian.


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Naveen