[Mac OS X TeX] New naming scheme for TeX distributions

[Richard Koch]

Gerben,

This is fine. Is it active now?
However, I do not understand the message.

First you say that you have retired the name teTeX.dmg. Then you list a 
link
to TeXLive-teTeX.dmg. Is that retired? (I ask because all later links
contain teTeX).

Then you list two other links, one to teTeX-teTeX.dmg and one to TeX.dmg.
Finally you write "Links to either of the above and will be the one that 
I am
using myself for production." That sentence doesn't make sense to me.

Sorry to be dense. I want to have just one link on my site, and I want
it to point to the "preferred" distribution, that is, the one you run 
yourself.
What link should I use?

Dick
koch at math.uoregon.edu

> I have decided on a new naming scheme for my TeX distributions. To be 
> certain that all people who maintain links (Richard and Jerome afaik) 
> have to change their links on their web sites, I have retired the name 
> teTeX.dmg.
>
> 	ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/tex-gs/TeXLive-teTeX.dmg
>
> Links to the latest release of a stable (afaik) TeXLive develop for the 
> programs and script and teTeX-beta for the texmf tree
>
> 	ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/tex-gs/teTeX-teTeX.dmg
>
> Links to the latest release of a stable teTeX-beta for the programs and 
> script and teTeX-beta for the texmf tree
>
> 	ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/tex-gs/TeX.dmg
>
> Links to either of the above and will be the one that I am using myself 
> for production. This is the *preferred* distribution as well as the one 
> that is most easy for me to support (given that I run it myself). In 
> time, I might move back again to a single distribution, and most likely 
> this will be based on TeXLive-teTeX, because it is a richer setup.
>
> The last official release of teTeX is so much out of date that I have 
> stopped keeping it around. The TeXLive non-develop source tree is more 
> up to date, but still lacks one or two things that are essential for 
> Mac OS X, so I keep to the development tree. However, I sync versions 
> of the development tree that are reported to me by the maintainer as 
> being stable.
>
> A new TeXLive-teTeX release is forthcoming. It will contain the 
> absolute latest stable pdfTeX: pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 
> 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020204. I have been running tyis for almost a 
> week now without any problems.
>
> Yours,
>
> G
>
>
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