Call for testing: TeX Collection 2021

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 08:41:04PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:45:31PM +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > The TeX Collection image for 2021 is available for testing from
> >      http://tug.org/~manfred
> > 
> > Specifically
> >   http://tug.org/~manfred/texcol2021.iso
> > 
> > Checksums are available as:
> >   http://tug.org/~manfred/texcol2021.iso.md5
> > or 
> >   http://tug.org/~manfred/texcol2021.iso.sha512
> 
> Tested MiKTeX (via ProTeXt) and TeX Live in most combinations of
> admin/single user on Windows 7 Home NL, Windows 8.1 Pro NL and
> Windows 10 20H2 Pro US, all on virtual machines, except for one full
> default admin installation on a bare-metal Windows 10 20H2.

Forgot to mention: W7 and W8 were 32-bit, W10 (virtual and
non-virtual) 64-bit.

> I belatedly found a problem with the TL installer: the number of and
> the combined size of the collections gives wrong info when
> checking/unchecking TeXworks in the main window. I do not consider
> this a show stopper.
> 
> I tested the installation with pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, bibtex,
> biber and makeindex.
> 
> MiKTeX uninstalled cleanly in all cases. With TL, filetypes are
> sometimes not removed at uninstall. This is a long-standing problem
> for which I have no answer. Since the filetypes are no longer linked
> to any file extensions, this failure should in practice be of little
> consequence.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg