[texworks] integrating TeX Works into TeX Live

[Norbert Preining]

On Di, 10 Mär 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
> Norbert -- Jonathan and I discussed this briefly a few weeks ago.  I
> agree that we certainly cannot include TW in the TeX Live source tree.
> However, we felt that we could ask any of the TL builders who cared to
> try to build it, as a separate package (kind of like the clisp madness
> for xindy), and construct TL packages from the results.  I admit the
> details are lacking.

That would be really fine. Agreed.

> The resulting binaries will probably work on fewer systems than the
> binaries in the main tree, but we can't help that ...

Would we still ship it a separate package or as a texlive package for
only some archs, like xindy?

Best wishes

Norbert

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