Re: new teTeX beta (20040208)
Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Waugh <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:52:13PM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote: >> After a long time without a published beta or stable release, I >> am very please to make this announce. > I think the answer is 'no', but just to clarify: > Are distributions (such as Fedora Core) meant to pick this up? > In other words, will there be complaints if they stick to 2.0.2 > in preference to this? Your question sounds a bit polemic. There is a simple rule: Use the latest stable release. If you think it's too old then contact Thomas Esser. At the moment therte is no reason to put the latest beta into a Linux release. Thomas' announcement came with a huge change log. If you read it carefully you will see that some of the interna had been changed, most things are not visible to a user. BTW., Linux distributors usually split teTeX into packages. I don't think that anybody is able to do this reliably unless he is a TeX guru or something like that. Recently a friend of mine had a problem (not RedHat specific). He installed all the packages except context. The problem is that if you use LaTeX and Metapost, you need at least two files which are part of context. I don't use one of the mainstream Linux distributions, so I don't know how they split teTeX into pieces. I even don't know why. There is plenty of disk space for KDE and Gnome... Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------