[tex-live] Updating packages over the internet a la MiKTeX

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Gerben Wierda wrote:

> Would it be a good time to introduce a versioning and 
> ready-downloadable (if not already present) approach for the Master 
> tree? Or better, get CTAN somehow to have such a setup that it can be 
> used as the MiKTeX repository is used, for automatic updating over the 
> internet?

can you explain in a bit more detail what is missing for someone to 
implement this?

Sebastian