[OS X TeX] Installing packages

[Gerben Wierda]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 03:16, Joseph C. Slater wrote:

>
> On Jun 3, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> I wonder how MikTeX does this. After all, TeX/CTAN/LaTeX packages are 
>> far from standardised in how they should be processed for install.
>>
>> If there is some system to it, I could implement this.
>>
>> G
> I would suppose that a good start would be to copy the directory 
> wholesale and latex any file with the extension .ins, then latex any 
> file with the extension .tex, bibtex it, makeindex, and latex it again 
> (is that twice?), to generate the documentation. That would work for 
> the vast majority. But, if you can automate this, you are a better 
> programmer than I. Oh, wait. I think you've already established that. 
> ;)
>
> You might ask the MikTeX folks. They obviously know how to do this. 
> The source code is also freely available:
> http://www.miktex.org/sourcecode.html

The answer is here:

	http://www.miktex.org/packaging.html

they have their own repository which is created by hand by volunteers. 
Well, I could see if I can connect to their repository

G

>
> If you do this, it might as well be done in a way that works with 
> TeXLive. I wonder if the folks that generate that would be interested 
> in adding that to the TeXLive project. I can't imagine that they 
> haven't thought of it.
> Joe
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