Re: Adding skillicons to TeXlive

Hi Karl,

Karl Berry <[email protected]> writes:

> Yes. (Aside: In general, when a package is not included in TL, I try to
> write an extremely terse reason in the ctan2tds script.
> https://svn.tug.org/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/libexec/ctan2tds.)

Thanks for your response, and the hint.

> In this case, there were two reasons:
>
> 1) the license of the icons themselves was not clear to me, not stated
> in the README, and sometimes I get tired of chasing third-party
> references. But looking at https://github.com/tandpfun/skill-icons now,
> I guess it is MIT, which is fine. Which leaves:

Yes, the licenses of icons and the LaTeX support files are acceptable.

> 2) the package is huge! 30mb, and even worse ~two thousand files, half
> of which are uncompressed eps. I didn't and don't think that is worth
> inflicting on the repository.
>
> The ideal would be to omit the eps and, perhaps more importantly,
> combine all those tiny individual files into one, or a few pdfs, and
> make the code smart enough to pick them out of the right page.
> There are a number of icon sets that have managed to do this.
>
> Thousands upon thousands of tiny individual files just makes everything
> harder and bigger (at least one disk block, regardless, and each file is
> another line in tlpdb) than it needs to be. Normal packages are no
> problem, but these huge icon collections are a pain.
>
> So ... I decided to wait to do anything until someone actually noticed
> it wasn't in TL. Which is now you :).

:-)  I'm not using the icons myself, I just wrote some code for AUCTeX.

> Meanwhile, people can get it from CTAN, as always.
>   
>     P.S. I couldn't find an e-mail address from the author Anton
>     Mnatsakanov, hence no Cc.
>
> If you want to submit the above on his github, feel free.

I'm writing to Anton now, hopefully he considers your request above.

Best, Arash