Hi, Being shocked at the magnitude of texlive I have been investigating alternatives. I have put together 4 packages that use the Free Pascal compiler to give a minimal working TeX system.
This is WEB, a literate programming system for Pascal. All base TeX-ware is written in WEB, including WEB itself. We get around this recursive dependency by shipping a files/tangleboot.p Pascal source file that, when compiled, is capable of creating WEB from its sources. WEB uses change files (.ch), a primitive diff, to modify .web source files to suit the local installation site. Two change files are included with this port that let the generated Pascal files compile with the Free Pascal compiler. The literate programming documentation for 'tangle' and 'weave' is generated by this port, but we do not have the tools (yet) to create the final .dvi files.
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