[OS X TeX] Updated MacTeX packages

Roussanka Loukanova rloukano at stp.lingfil.uu.se
Wed May 23 04:46:49 EDT 2007


On Tue, 22 May 2007, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:
> On May 22, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>> On 22 May, 2007, at 18:51 , Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>> Le 23 mai 07 à 00:04, Axel E. Retif a écrit :
>>>> On 22 May, 2007, at 16:37 , Roussanka Loukanova wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> What about the revised TeXDist control panel: How can I update it 
>>>>> directly, like BibDesk, etc., without downloading and updating the 
>>>>> entire MacTeX-2007.dmg?
>>>> 
>>>> I think the latest gwTeX (19 MB update) has it:
>> [...]
>>> I don't think so. The latest version of the TeXDist pref panel is build 
>>> 14, announced by Jérôme Laurens on 21 May
>> 
>> And gwTeX is 2007/05/18
>> 
>>> gwTeX has probably build 11, announced there on 11 May.
>>> 
>>> How to check the version: Ctrl-Click (or Right-Click for people with a 
>>> Mighty Mouse) on TeX Distribution Helper or TeXDistPrefPane.prefPane, 
>>> select Show Package Contents and open Contents/Info.plist (it will be 
>>> opened in Property List Editor in case you have Xcode installed). The 
>>> string TeXDistSourceVersion is the build number, I think.
>
> The pref pane can be found in /Library/PreferencePanes. (I had to hunt 
> around).

Thanks for pointing how to get to it (I also engaged in a short, 
unsuccessful hunting :)

>> In my case, both the Preference Pane and the .app say 6.
>> 
> Like Axel, my Preference pane Info.plist reads 6; the Get Info window for the 
> Preference Pane says 1.1; and texdist -version gives me 1.5.
>
> This is with a successfully updated (I think) gwTeX, i.e., the latest version 
> recently announced here.

The same for me.

Roussanka

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