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Re: Does Latex/Tex install? Does Latex/Tex work? How do you get it installed? How do you get it to work?


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Charles Wilson  wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 4:47 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Dima Pasechnik ?wrote:
>>> tetex is dead and buried.
>>> Indeed, http://www.tug.org/tetex/ says:
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> De-support notice
>>>
>>> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any
>>> more (May 2006).
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> In fact, newer (la)tex packages tend not to work with tetex.
>>>
>>> Perhaps it is time for cygwin to switch to Tex Live.
>>
>> feel free to volunteer for packing it.
>
> Well, hold on there, cowboy. ?Jan Nieuwenhuizen is listed as the teTeX
> maintainer for cygwin; I think to proper course is to ask Jan to
> update/switch cygwin's TeX system to TeX Live, and make the case for why
> it should happen.

Tex Live will be another package, so it could have another maintainer.
No one will complain about additional volunteers.
;-)

TexLive has a peculiar installation, so making a cygwin package is not
a trivial task.

>
> I think "teTeX has been dead upstream for five years" is a pretty good
> argument, actually.

using a typical CGF's answer:

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI

>
> 'Course, we haven't heard from Jan since last Novemeber
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-11/msg00422.html
> so...
>
> Jan? ?You still there?

following gmane, he seems busy with lilypond and mingw

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