[OS X TeX] Re: TeX Live (MacTeX) 2010 Developement has Started.

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 14, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

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> On May 14, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>> Well... it appears that I had it wrong in my initial statement that tlmgr won't update binaries. In fact tlmgr has the ability to update binaries but, in practice, that has never been used. This is because on the fly binary changes would have to be compiled and available for many different platforms and that would generated way too much work and testing for folks.
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>> Actually it WAS used after prerelease and release TL2009.
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>> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
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>> shows a lot of "universal-darwin" updates and similar binary updates
>> on other platforms (like x86_64-linux). It was never used in the
>> released version
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>> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2008-September/018245.html
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>> Victor
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> Howdy,
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> Hmmm... I thought they were simply symbolic links to updated scripts but I see things like bibtex.universal-darwin and that is a true binary. Very interesting.
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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Howdy,

I just noticed that bibtex.universal-darwin was in that list and I don't think it has been updated in a long time. I looked at what is in bibtex.universal-darwin via the `Get Info' command in TeX Live Utility (I assume it looks into the tlmgr database) and it appears that only some doc files are part of that ``package.'' So it isn't clear to me that there really was a binary update.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)