[OS X TeX] basic etiquette

[Victor Ivrii]

On 11/27/06, Gerben Wierda <Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2006, at 13:10 , Victor Ivrii wrote:
>
> > At this moment GW binaries seem to be slightly off the cutting edge:
> > pdftex 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 instead of 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 the latest
> > stable and to keep packages I use up-to-date, I rey upon mpm and
> > myself rather than any distribution.
>
> The current TL (today) repository has 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 and not
> 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 so it seems the pdfTeX authors have not yet
> uploaded their new versions to TL.
>
> I follow TL and as far as I know, the authors of pdfTeX, XeTeX, etc.,
> keep TL reasonably up-to-date.

Then what exactly is TeXLive?
In CTAN

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/

has

Images/ 	2006-02-02 	contains: texlive
Source/ 	2004-11-28 	
install/ 	2006-09-02 	

Images are created once per year.
Source files are old. Install files are 2005-11-* and 2005-10-* mainly.

Where would appear pdftex 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 if the authors uploaded it today?


                                                         Victor

>
> It would be nice if TL was *the* repository for everybody, but some
> development seems to proceed without TL being updated.
>
> G
>
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