[tex-live] TeXLive has no stable source tree and resorts to DVD with binaries?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Apr 13 23:33:52 CEST 2011
On 2011-04-13 at 20:36:55 +0000, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 April 2011 19:00:44 Norbert Preining wrote:
> > And it still escapes my understanding what on earth you are
> > trying to achieve, besides asking questions.
>
> At this point: understand a few bits of how TeXLive is maintained
> and developed (just how it's reflected in the public file trees &
> svn). The most confusing part for me is about how the
> stabilization of a development software happens here... It's much
> like if it would not happen at all, but then why considering this
> project currently deviating from release of 2011?
Many of the programs are maintained somewhere else and TeX Live
acquires the latest stable release once a year. Most of the programs
in TeX Live are not updated at all because they are matured for decades.
Regards,
Reinhard
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