tl-install restore period

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 15:13:31 CEST 2024 

The URL is just part of a plain text paragraph so to the extent that a
system makes an active link out of it
is just down to the heuristics of that system.

reading your email in gmail I see

[image: image.png]
and gmail has inferred a link not including the . , and the link works.

I assume you are using a system that has inferred a URL ending in the .
(that doesn't work)

As such I'd say it isn't really a problem that needs to be solved although
perhaps the text could
be modified to give systems inferring links a bit of help such as using the
<> convention so

For more, see the output of install-tl --help, especially th
 -repository option.  Online via <https://tug.org/texlive/doc>.)

David
(Just an interested observer: I have no control over this code)

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 13:55, Carlos <linguafalsa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 09:19:11PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm an not sure what you are talking about, but it seems the mirror
> selected by the multiplexer is out of date or broken.
> >
> > You can select any mirror manually using the
> >   -repository ...
> > argument.
> >
> > Details here https://tug.org/texlive/doc/install-tl.html
>
> Hey Norbert. Right. But when you follow the link as normal people would do
> through any terminal such as foot terminal or alacritty, it returns the
> infamous url not found . I'm not sure xterm would allow it but whenever you
> follow the link from a terminal
>
> the requested > > The requested URL is not found on this server.
>
> Better yet, you can try this out and go to
>
>
> https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/install-tl?revision=70922&view=markup
>
> and see for yourself that when you click on the link from the online option
>
> $0: The TeX Live versions of the local installation
> and the repository being accessed are not compatible:
>       local: $TeXLive::TLConfig::ReleaseYear
>  repository: $texlive_release
> Perhaps you need to use a different CTAN mirror?
> (For more, see the output of install-tl --help, especially the
>  -repository option.  Online via https://tug.org/texlive/doc.)
>
> it's supposed to return a URL not found on the server and if it doesn't
> both your systems are duped to follow the link .
>
> After all both of you Karl and you are without exception and have been
> pretty lucky in this regards that all these modern browsers understand
> better the forward slash
>
> To include a dot is not common regardless of whatever the typographical
> gold standard happens to be
>
> See more about it in this question and answers here
>
>
> https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/73934/how-can-urls-have-a-dot-at-the-end-e-g-www-bla-de
>
>
> and Look
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5322
>
> Several productions in structured header field bodies are simply
>    strings of certain basic characters.  Such productions are called
>    atoms.
>
>    Some of the structured header field bodies also allow the period
>    character (".", ASCII value 46) within runs of atext.  An additional
>    "dot-atom" token is defined for those purposes.
>
>       Note: The "specials" token does not appear anywhere else in this
>       specification.  It is simply the visible (i.e., non-control, non-
>       white space) characters that do not appear in atext.  It is
>       provided only because it is useful for implementers who use tools
>       that lexically analyze messages.  Each of the characters in
>       specials can be used to indicate a tokenization point in lexical
>       analysis.
>
>
> Resnick                     Standards Track                    [Page 12]
>
> RFC 5322                Internet Message Format             October 2008
>
>
>    atext           =   ALPHA / DIGIT /    ; Printable US-ASCII
>                        "!" / "#" /        ;  characters not including
>                        "$" / "%" /        ;  specials.  Used for atoms.
>                        "&" / "'" /
>                        "*" / "+" /
>                        "-" / "/" /
>                        "=" / "?" /
>                        "^" / "_" /
>                        "`" / "{" /
>                        "|" / "}" /
>                        "~"
>
>    atom            =   [CFWS] 1*atext [CFWS]
>
>    dot-atom-text   =   1*atext *("." 1*atext)
>
>    dot-atom        =   [CFWS] dot-atom-text [CFWS]
>
>    specials        =   "(" / ")" /        ; Special characters that do
>                        "<" / ">" /        ;  not appear in atext
>                        "[" / "]" /
>                        ":" / ";" /
>                        "@" / "\" /
>                        "," / "." /
>                        DQUOTE
>
>    Both atom and dot-atom are interpreted as a single unit, comprising
>    the string of characters that make it up.  Semantically, the optional
>    comments and FWS surrounding the rest of the characters are not part
>    of the atom; the atom is only the run of atext characters in an atom,
>    or the atext and "." characters in a dot-atom.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > PREINING Norbert                              https://www.preining.info
> > arXiv / Cornell University  +   IFMGA ProGuide    +   TeX Live
> > GPG: 0x860CDC13   fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
> >
> > Apr 17, 2024 21:13:13 Carlos <linguafalsa at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hello Karl:
> > >
> > > I noticed the last message to the list didn't go through at tlbuild so
> here then
> > >
> > > The changes for the trailing period had to be undone. And I'm fine
> with it. if that's what you want, so be it.
> > >
> > > But my question is what browser am I supposed to use to follow the
> link in and thus avoid the infamous Not Found
> > > The requested URL was not found on this server.
> > >
> > > in all current browsers known to mankind
> > >
> > > The TeX Live versions of the local installation
> > > and the repository being accessed are not compatible:
> > >       local: $TeXLive::TLConfig::ReleaseYear
> > > repository: $texlive_release
> > > Perhaps you need to use a different CTAN mirror?
> > > (For more, see the output of install-tl --help, especially the
> > > -repository option.  Online via https://tug.org/texlive/doc.)
> > >
> > > Is it a text based browser like lynx or elinks or anything else that
> would allow me to read the page ?
> > >
> > > What is it am I supposed to do when I follow the link from the
> terminal such as foot terminal or alacritty? Append a dot/period at the end
> so I can avoid the URL not found
> > >
> > > If the answer is a no to all these questions, could you add to the
> documentation something in the lines to advise the user to append a
> period/dot at the end of the URL? Or copy the link just before but not
> either on or after the dot/period in question?
> > >
> > > But I mean.My gosh. Why does it to have so complicated?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> --
>
>
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