[MacPorts] #51668: texlive-texdist: new port
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#51668: texlive-texdist: new port
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Reporter: dliessi | Owner: macports-tickets@…
Type: submission | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
Port: texlive-texdist |
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Comment (by mojca):
First of all: I'm not even sure if the above link will stay under that
name. There might be better project names than TeXLive-M.
https://github.com/texlive or https://github.com/MacTeX or whatever (I
don't know who owns those project names).
But let me first explain what exactly the repository on the link above is
about. This is more or less a tiny fraction of what MacTeX provides. I
made some minor changes in the scripts based on what Richard Koch sent me.
"Legacy" in the name stands for the fact that MacTeX will no longer
support anything beyond officially supported versions, so MacTeX 2017
won't work on 10.9 and below, MacTeX 2018 won't work on 10.10 and below
... The package above is meant as "replacement", so that users of legacy
systems will still be able to switch between different distributions.
The `texdist` script in the above repository is not the upstream version.
It's just a copy. I have no clue where the "upstream" version would
reside, if anywhere at all.
Here's the link with PrefPane (semi-abandoned):
* https://sourceforge.net/projects/mactextoolbox/files/TeXDist/
And a local version of PrefPane:
* LocalTeX at http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/
But keep in mind that the PrefPane no longer works on the latest OSes and
that the version on older OSes is buggy enough to not even support TL 2017
where the name of the bin folder was slightly modified. It was removed
from MacTeX in any case and nowadays you would get an advice to use TeX
Live Utility for switching between distributions.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/51668#comment:12>
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