[I have set the reply-to since I'm not subscribed to the list.] Hello,
I have created a TeX and al. distribution, pure C89 under a BSD like license, that has been tested under NetBSD and Plan9; has been reported to compile under Linux and FreeBSD, and should simply compile everywhere. It is light. Has all the latest versions of Donald E. Knuth's programs and fonts, plus Tomas Rockiki's dvips(1), John Hobby's MetaPost, Oren Patashnik's bibtex(1), the AMS fonts and more. One can compile the LaTeX package with it (see the README/LISEZ.MOI). The programs depend on strictly nothing except the standard C library. It is a matter of less than 10Mb to download for sources. A matter of typically less than 5 minutes to compile; less than 5 minutes to install including the generation of fonts etc. I have extracted the needles from the haystack. It should be now maintainable because it holds in one's hand (this is the meaning of the original french work : "maintenable"). And since there is less code and it is organized, it should be a better choice for security. Since I'm reaching the 1.0 target (the only remaining thing to do is add back the X11 display rendering for METAFONT), I think it's time for kerTeX to be more widely known. The package uses my own framework: R.I.S.K. to do cross-compilation and customization. It should be trivial to add a parameter file for an OpenBSD support. It's here: http://www.kergis.com/en/kertex.html and please do download and read! the README. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
