[tex-live] [OS X TeX] .texdist for texlive-2008?

Dr. Clea F. Rees cfrees at imapmail.org
Sat Sep 6 02:08:21 CEST 2008


On 31/08/08, you seem to have written:

> I've downloaded and installed a test release of texlive 2008 yesterday, and 
> also installed the MacTeX-extras from Richard Koch's homepage. One thing I'm 
> missing to get everything working nicely, is a .texdist bundle to be placed 
> in /Library/TeX/Distribution, to use Jerome Laurens' and Gerben Wierda's 
> mechanism for switching between distributions. Could I download this bundle 
> somewhere? Or will it be provided in MacTeX when it's finished?

You should not need to install a *test* release at this point. TL 2008
has been released, as has MacTeX 2008. The latter does indeed do the
work of setting things up to play nicely with the switching mechanisms.

- cfr


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