[XeTeX] Where download Vanilla XeTeX

[Vasile Gaburici]

I agree :)

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at me.com> wrote:
> Le 13 août 08 à 14:11, Vasile Gaburici a écrit :
>
>> You are mistaken about where the svn install script puts the new
>> binaries. It will track down, following symlinks if necessary, and
>> will overwrite your existing xetex and xdvipdfmx binaries that it
>> finds in your PATH. You need to edit the install script if this is not
>> what you want.
>
> There are two different questions here: what is installed now when compiling
> XeTeX from source (which is what your answer is about I think), and what
> will be installed later when MacTeX-2008 (the Mac packaging of TeXLive-2008)
> is released (which was Paolo's question if I'm not mistaken).
>
> In other words, again if I'm not mistaken, Paolo's concern was whether
> installing now XeTeX from source will have any influence on a later TeXLive
> install through MacTeX (whether the files installed now when compiling XeTeX
> from source will take precedence over the files installed later through
> MacTeX-2008). The answer is No.
>
> All this knowing that Paolo uses currently a different TeX distribution for
> the Mac, named gwTeX and installed via an application called i-Installer.
> gwTeX itself is based on a subset (corresponding more-or-less to teTeX) of
> TeXLive-2007.
>
> Actually, there are two different things to consider in a XeTeX
> installation: the binaries, and the accompanying files (LaTeX packages,
> scripts, formats, etc.).
>
> When compiling XeTeX from source, the binaries overwrite those in the
> current TeX installation, while the accompanying files are put in the
> TEXMFLOCAL tree reserved for local additions. When installing later a new
> TeXLive release (MacTeX-2008 for Paolo), precedence will be for the new
> binaries but may be for the old accompanying files.
>
> To be more specific, XeTeX pieces are installed in:
>
> - MacTeX-2007: binaries in /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin, accompanying files
> in (to simplify) /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist.
>
> - Compilation of XeTeX from source: binaries in /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin,
> accompanying files in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local.
>
> - MacTeX-2008: binaries in /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin, accompanying files
> in (to simplify) /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist.
>
> Precedence will go to /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin for the binaries but
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local for the accompanying files. Hence, in this
> configuration it is safer to remove any XeTeX-related pieces from
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local before installing MacTeX-2008.
>
> But here the situation is slightly different because Paolo uses currently
> gwTeX instead of MacTeX-2007, yielding:
>
> - gwTeX: binaries in /usr/local/gwTeX/bin, accompanying files in (to
> simplify) /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive.
>
> - Compilation of XeTeX from source: binaries in /usr/local/gwTeX/bin,
> accompanying files in /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local.
>
> - MacTeX-2008: binaries in /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin, accompanying files
> in (to simplify) /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist.
>
> After using the TeX Distribution pref panel to switch from gwTeX to
> TeXLive-2008, only the binaries and accompanying files from MacTeX-2008 will
> be seen.
>
> Bruno
>
>