[tex-live] Install file of the TL should have unique name
Siep Kroonenberg
siepo at cybercomm.nl
Mon May 8 16:01:03 CEST 2017
On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 02:54:03PM +0200, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> after the following discussion:
>
> ┌────
> │ http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2014-January/034704.html
> └────
>
> install files of the TL used to have unique names.
>
> But I noticed that's not the case anymore with the up to date TL 2016:
> there are:
>
> ┌────
> │ install-tl-windows.bat
> │ install-tl-windows.exe
> └────
>
> and some students of mine to who I provided this up to date TL 2016
> didn't succeed to install it because they double-clicked on the `.exe'
> instead of the `.bat' file.
>
> It would be worth to fix this for TL 2017.
A better solution would be to remove install-tl-windows.exe and also
the .zip- and .tar.gz archives from the installation media.
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Siep Kroonenberg
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