[tex-live] TeXLive has no stable source tree and resorts to DVD with binaries?

[Norbert Preining]

On Di, 12 Apr 2011, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> a] what extra care has been taken to fill contents of branches like branch2010 
> comparing with a mere snapshot of development tree in a state between 
> releases?

None. There are no other branches but the ones for releases.

> b] does branch2010 coincides with some released DVDs?

Yes.

> c] does rsync://tug.org::tldevsrc gives the same as checkout of branch2010?

No. tldevsrc is a view onto the current trunk

> d] executable binaries (and the like) in CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet usually 
> get updated once per year with the new release?

Yes.

> e] script files (what else?) in CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet get updated on a 
> regular basis to provide bugfixes? What about further improvements, how long do 
> they lie in trunk before being merged in tlnet?

Yes.
What "further improvements" do you have in mind? We ship daily updates to
the packages. For binaries see above question.

Best wishes

Norbert
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