[tex-live] license info in tpm file

Frank Küster frank at kuesterei.ch
Mon Sep 26 21:00:02 CEST 2005


karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

>     the texlive repository is
>     populated with already processed sty and cls files, not by copying dtx
>     and ins and running latex over the ins, right?
>
> We do the latter -- copy dtx/ins from CTAN and run latex over them (via,
> mostly, Sebastian's Build/cdbuild/ctan2tds.pl script).  We have to,
> since CTAN does not generally provide the generated sty/cls/whatever.

Err, right, I should have known.  What I really should have asked: do
you also generate to documentation, or take what's on CTAN (meaning that
you don't have to check how many runs, makeindex invocations etc are
needed)?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



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