[tex-live] doc update for removed binaries

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Wed Aug 20 02:30:41 CEST 2003


FYI, I made another small change to the TL English documentation, to
mention the no-longer-included binary sets (AIX, OSF, plus the HPUX
removed in some prior year).

k


==== //depot/Build/cdbuild/tldocsource/english/live.tex#64 - /home/karl/src/Build/cdbuild/tldocsource/english/live.tex ====
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         \email{tex-live at tug.org}\\
         \url{http://tug.org/texlive/}}
 \title{The \protect\TeXLive{} Guide, 2003}
-\date{July 2003}
+\date{August 2003}
 
 % comes out too close to the toc, and we know it's page one anyway.
 \thispagestyle{empty}
@@ -417,15 +417,15 @@
 \label{tab:archlist}
 \begin{tabular}{>{\ttfamily}lll}
 alpha-linux	   & Compaq Alpha Linux   & \\
-alphaev5-osf4.0d   & Compaq Alphaev5 OSF  & \\
+%alphaev5-osf4.0d   & Compaq Alphaev5 OSF  & \\
 %hppa2.0-hpux10.20  & HP9000 HPUX 10.20	  & \\
-i386-freebsd5.0    & Intel x86 FreeBSD    & \\
+i386-freebsd4.8    & Intel x86 FreeBSD    & \\
 i386-linux         & Intel x86 GNU/Linux  & demo \CD\\
-i386-openbsd3.0    & Intel x86 OpenBSD    & \\
+i386-openbsd3.3    & Intel x86 OpenBSD    & \\
 i386-solaris2.8    & Intel x86 Solaris    & \\
 mips-irix6.5       & SGI IRIX             & \\
-powerpc-aix4.3.3.0 & IBM RS/6000 AIX      & \\
-powerpc-darwin6.6  & \MacOSX              & demo \CD\\
+%powerpc-aix4.3.3.0 & IBM RS/6000 AIX      & \\
+powerpc-darwin6.3  & \MacOSX              & demo \CD\\
 sparc-solaris2.7   & Sun Sparc Solaris    & \\
 sparc64-linux      & Sun Sparc Linux      & \\
 win32		   & Windows (32-bit)     & demo \CD\\
@@ -3758,12 +3758,20 @@
 that \TeXLive{} had grown so large it could no longer be contained on a
 single \CD, so we split it into three different distributions (see
 section~\ref{sec:multiple-dist} on p.~\pageref{sec:multiple-dist}).  In
-addition, at the request of the \LaTeX{} team, we changed the standard
-\cmdname{latex} and \cmdname{pdflatex} commands to now use \eTeX{} (see
-p.\pageref{text:etex}).  The new Latin Modern fonts are included and
-recommended.  We also took the opportunity to substantially revise this
-documentation.  Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy,
-the version is now simply identified by the year: \TeXLive{} 2003.
+addition:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item At the request of the \LaTeX{} team, we changed the standard
+      \cmdname{latex} and \cmdname{pdflatex} commands to now use \eTeX{} (see
+      p.\pageref{text:etex}).
+\item The new Latin Modern fonts were included (and are recommended).
+\item Support for \acro{AIX} and Alpha \acro{OSF} were removed
+      (\acro{HPUX} support was removed previously), since no one had
+      machines available on which to compile new binaries.
+\item This documentation was substantially revised.
+\item Finally, since the edition numbers had grown unwieldy,
+      the version is now simply identified by the year: \TeXLive{} 2003.
+\end{itemize}
 
 
 \subsection{Future releases}


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