Hi from EuroTeX! Some of you may know that I have started playing with the svn sources of TeX Live 2008 which is due to be released very soon.
I am thinking about making some changes to the way the port is done. a) Use a temporary prefix 'Build' is a shell script used to configure and build TL into a PREFIX in the cwd (relative to the configure script). It sets some defaults and the PREFIX and then runs the build itself. The main tediousness of porting texlive is getting it all to listen to DESTDIR. Pushing patches upstream (up, up-stream that is) has proven difficult. So is it acceptable to have the build install into the default place (./inst) and then move it int the WRKINST manually using a post-install target? How would I achieve that? I think I mean setting FAKE='', and by letting the build script use it's default ./inst PREFIX for installation. That above paragraph may even make sense :P I am still not sure, so I want to know what people think. b) I'm thinking about making texmf-* overlap and use MULTI_PACKAGES, ie. texmf-full = texmf_minimal + texmf_full. This means I could get rid of some @exec kludge, but also means that upgrades from tl2007 will not be smooth. Any thoughts. Thanks -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
