Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Markus Hoenicka MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15348.9449.351000.999290@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:26:17 +0000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tetex-beta nitpicking [WAS: Re: no more package moratorium?] In-Reply-To: References: <007f01c16cde$5016de20$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <20011114124323.C24614@cygbert.vinschen.de> <15348.5126.44000.631380@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 6.94 under Emacs 20.6.1 Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Strange, we haven't had any complaints. It seemst that MiKTeX > installs and runs flawlessly. Note that, of course, MiKTeX is > packaged in a tarball and installed through setup.exe. Maybe our > Windows users are all using that latest software? Is it really only me running WinNT without IE > 2? > > Did you install the teTeX texmf tree? > > No, I installed tetex-beta, that's all the tetex that setup.exe will > install, right? That's why we still have to distribute and maitain > our own, modified setup.exe and repository (apart from the just lifted > package moratorium). > > > Just installing Tetex-beta is not enough, as explained by the > > Tetex-beta readme. > > Yes, I know. That's why we can't use it. Users in general won't read > READMEs, let alone they would be able to follow simple instructions > :-( > > The fact that there's a README with instructions, instead of an > additional tetex package, for example, tells me that there is some > intelligent user-interaction required. > Now I see. We're talking about semi-intelligent end-users ;-/ I see no easy way how Cygwin setup.exe could provide a full TeX system unless a copy of the teTeX texmf tree is made part of the distribution. Would that be possible? regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/