[OS X TeX] Finally we are grown up

Anthony Morton amorton at fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 16 23:13:26 EST 2006


> You're correct.  People will have to rely on an alternate source for 
> up-to-date ghostscript/ImageMagick/etc, which means using a system 
> like fink or compiling your own from source and dealing with 
> dependency nightmares.  Alternately, someone could take over Gerben's 
> i-Package maintainership and roll those updates into MacTeX.

I've always preferred i-Installer to Fink for installing and updating 
these other components - a tribute to Gerben's good work here.  I'd 
like to see i-Installer keep going just for these, even if the 
community moves to direct TeXLive installation for TeX itself.  
Fortunately it appears these other components don't get updated as 
often, so maybe this is something we can take on without too much 
effort.

Tony M.

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