GhostScript on TL4

Philip TAYLOR tex-live@tug.org
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:32:20 +0000


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>  > Phil writes:
>  >
>  >  > The last is clearly a very significant omission; what's the
>  >  > status of GhostScript?  ** Phil.
>  >
> 
> what is the signifant omission, Phil?

In the context cited, it was MikTeX.

> 
> i would remind you that I have been *begging* for volunteers to help
> decide what goes on the CD for several months now....
> 

And I would remind you that I was very (pro-)active in establishing contact
between you and Christian Schenk to ensure that this omission did _not_ occur!
(I append copies of the correspondence...).

** Phil.
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Dear Christian --

Sebastian Rahtz, primary authority for the TeX Live CD series,
has asked me to liaise with you concerning MikTeX.  In particular,
he would like to know if you if you have a reasonably firm
timetable for new releases for the next few months (to avoid
burning TeX Live 4 a few days to soon!), and whether the
TeX Live team can do anything to help MikTeX users? Is there
some addition to the texmf tree that would help you? And where does
MikTeX store its filename database?

Philip Taylor, for UK-TuG.

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Very many thanks, Christian; forwarded to
Sebastian for action/comment!  ** Phil.
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Christian Schenk wrote:
>
> Hello Philip,
>
> at the moment I'm working on to MiKTeX branches:
>
> 1) MiKTeX 1.11 is considered stable, only bug fixes (update packages) will
>    be released from time to time (the next is scheduled for February).
>
> 2) MiKTeX 1.20 is currently in beta; 1.20 contains not so many new features,
>    so it can be made stable within a few weeks.
>
> MiKTeX should be happy with a standard TEXMF tree (e.g. teTeX), i.e. I
> see no need to add extra files to the TEXMF tree. It would be nice if
> you send me a pre-release version of TeXLive4, so that I can test the
> MiKTeX part (and adjust the MiKTeX setup program if necessery).
>
> The filename database is stored in the local texmf tree (usually c:\texmflocal).
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
> Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Exch1.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk> writes:
>
> > Dear Christian --
> >
> > Sebastian Rahtz, primary authority for the TeX Live CD series,
> > has asked me to liaise with you concerning MikTeX.  In particular,
> > he would like to know if you if you have a reasonably firm
> > timetable for new releases for the next few months (to avoid
> > burning TeX Live 4 a few days to soon!), and whether the
> > TeX Live team can do anything to help MikTeX users? Is there
> > some addition to the texmf tree that would help you? And where does
> > MikTeX store its filename database?
> >
> > Philip Taylor, for UK-TuG.
>
> --
> Christian Schenk <cschenk@snafu.de>

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 > at the moment I'm working on to MiKTeX branches:
 >
 > 1) MiKTeX 1.11 is considered stable, only bug fixes (update packages) will
 >    be released from time to time (the next is scheduled for February).
 >
 > 2) MiKTeX 1.20 is currently in beta; 1.20 contains not so many new features,
 >    so it can be made stable within a few weeks.
I'd like to finalize TL4 by the end of February; obviously it would
make sense to include just a clean 1.20 on there. would that be a
reasonable plan?

 > MiKTeX should be happy with a standard TEXMF tree (e.g. teTeX), i.e. I
 > see no need to add extra files to the TEXMF tree. It would be nice if
 > you send me a pre-release version of TeXLive4, so that I can test the
 > MiKTeX part (and adjust the MiKTeX setup program if necessery).
at present I just dump CTAN's miktex directory onto the CD into
systems/win32. if there is anything I can do to make it easier to
install, or possible to run off the CD, let me know, and I can set it
up and burn a trial CD for you

suppose someone wanted to install the TEXMF tree off the CD, not
MikTeX's? is that easy to arrange?

 > The filename database is stored in the local texmf tree (usually
 > c:\texmflocal).
ok, fine.

sebastian

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