future of latex distribution?

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi all,

On Oct 30, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Gregory Wright wrote:
> Yes, TeXLive is one option but it is a _big_ project to rip apart
> the TeXLive distribution, build the binaries from source and
> repackage the TeX files into something like the texmf/ directories
> of teTeX.

The good news is that Gerben Wierda is actually doing that work.   
He's speaking at a conference next week, so hopefully we'll have some  
good news then.

> The real problem is that TeXLive is an entire parallel packaging
> scheme, not very compatible with MacPorts.  Adapting TeXLive
> could be done, but it really needs someone to spend a lot of
> time making it work.  That person won't be me in the near future;
> I am busy now with real work and keeping the getting all the
> haskell ports working with the latest compiler release.

I believe Gerben will also be publishing a complete source directory,  
so it should be straightforward to build a MacPort off of that.

-- Ernie P.