[tex-live] new install concept for TeXLive
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:04:36 +0000
Peter Flynn writes:
> I just looked at InstallAnywhere (www.zerog.com) which LimeWire use
> for their installer. Very impressive and multiplatform but $995 a
> copy.
and tell me it works from an uncompressed file system, using spec
files, and I'll find $995. If it works from compressed archives of
some kind, that means a major change in philosophy for TeX Live.
> Is math == amsmath? If so it should probably be called amsmath.
no, its other trash too
> > Is bib == natbib? etc.
no, it all the other uselsss styles
> I thought graphics was core now.
it is. "graphics" is stuff like xypic and pstricks
> > "sh"
>
> Good, even I can understand most of that.
even Thomas Esser's miraculous writing of it?
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