[tex-live] dvisvgm

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2017-06-05 at 18:11:22 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

 > On 5 June 2017 at 11:12, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> wrote:
 > > Hi Karl
 > >
 > >> [snip] There's no way to have different
 > >> per-platform man pages in TL.
 > >
 > > I see.
 > >
 > > One could imagine having the two man pages ready and
 > > then a symlink decided at install time would resolve
 > > between the two ?
 > >
 > > similarly there could have been perhaps a dvisvgm1 and a
 > > dvisvgm2 and at install time, the bin/dvisvgm would have been
 > > symlinked to the correct one admissible for the platform ?
 > 
 > While this is all nice at true, it only applies to a single binary and
 > from what I understand, TL 2018 will probably require C++11 anyway, so
 > any huge hacks invented now will be obsolete by the time of TL 2018
 > (and won't reach many users of TL 2017 who happen to download the ISO
 > images or install from DVDs anyway). This is the first time that we
 > ever shipped different versions of binaries.

 > Probably a much better option would be to simply provide binaries
 > somewhere for download, so that users can fetch an alternative binary
 > (just once) if needed.

This is indeed the best solution.  TeX Live should provide something
which works everywhere, even if it's not the latest release.  tlmgr
supports external repositories like

   http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/

already.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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