Re: ITA: tetex-beta [WAS: Need a tetex-beta maintainer]

2002-07-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicholas Wourms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> @tetex-beta >> > ^^ > I assume this is supposed to be @tetex-base? No, the current package is tetex-beta. I propose to do a new, dummy release that depends on the new tetex-bin. > Sounds good to me [though you might considier using

Re: ITA: tetex-beta [WAS: Need a tetex-beta maintainer]

2002-07-12 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Jerome BENOIT no longer has the time to maintain the tetex-beta package. >> >>Any volunteers? >> > >Guess I must move quick now, before someone else snatches this most >wanted package. > > > >But seriously, I managed t

ITA: tetex-beta [WAS: Need a tetex-beta maintainer]

2002-07-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jerome BENOIT no longer has the time to maintain the tetex-beta package. > > Any volunteers? Guess I must move quick now, before someone else snatches this most wanted package. But seriously, I managed to build teTeX-src-beta-20020530 today. It'

Re: libtool-CVS and Cygwin [WAS: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer]

2002-07-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Umm,, yeah -- all of the autotools must be installed under the same > prefix. > If you want to do it your way, you'd be better off installing all > three of your newly built packages under > "--prefix=~/usr/pkg/autotool-cvs/" So, yes, that's what I d

Re: libtool-CVS and Cygwin [WAS: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer]

2002-07-03 Thread Charles Wilson
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: >*) Autoconf-CVS is a bit broken, in that it only works if Libtool > is installed under the same prefix: installing updates of > packages as I tend to do, with prefixes like: > > ~/usr/pkg/autoconf-cvs > ~/usr/pkg/libtool-cvs > >

libtool-CVS and Cygwin [WAS: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer]

2002-07-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicholas Wourms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Btw: I've been putting quite some time in getting a fine guile release >>> to cross build for Cygwin, because this has a high priority for >>> me. But as yet I can't get a shared version linked. It seems I >>> need the latest autotools

Re: OS emulators - OT [WAS: Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer]

2002-07-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > > > >You might want to try http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ instead of vmware. > > > >Earnie. > > > Very cool Earnie, I didn't know this project was still going on... > Looks like it's made huge progress since I last checked... Can you > give any first-hand testimonials?

Re: OS emulators - OT [WAS: Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer]

2002-07-02 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Earnie Boyd wrote: >Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >>Nicholas Wourms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>Perhaps, if you have a copy of windows kicking around, you might try >>>VMware? I've even heard rumors that someone got it running under Wine. >>> >>I've got access to a machine that I can use f

Re: OS emulators - OT [WAS: Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer]

2002-07-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Nicholas Wourms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Perhaps, if you have a copy of windows kicking around, you might try > > VMware? I've even heard rumors that someone got it running under Wine. > > I've got access to a machine that I can use for light testing, now

Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer

2002-07-02 Thread Charles Wilson
> Btw: I've been putting quite some time in getting a fine guile release > to cross build for Cygwin, because this has a high priority for > me. But as yet I can't get a shared version linked. It seems I > need the latest autotools from cygwin, but I need them as cross > buil

Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer

2002-07-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicholas Wourms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps, if you have a copy of windows kicking around, you might try > VMware? I've even heard rumors that someone got it running under Wine. I've got access to a machine that I can use for light testing, now and then, but no spare copy of windows,

Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer

2002-07-02 Thread Nicholas Wourms
> > >>It makes some kind of sense. But I already made another vague promise >>(netpbm) that I haven't kept until now. >> >> >>This moring after reading Christopher's mail, I downloaded tetex-beta >>and latest sources to see if I could painlessly take over. I spent a >>good hour poking around, bu

Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer

2002-07-02 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Nicholas Wourms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Jerome BENOIT no longer has the time to maintain the tetex-beta package. >> >>Any volunteers? >> >>Many thanks to Jerome for his efforts over the last 1+ years. >> > Since Jan Nieuwenhuizen already is already maintaining the cygwin > teTeX-texmf TDS t

Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer

2002-07-02 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Christopher Faylor wrote: >Jerome BENOIT no longer has the time to maintain the tetex-beta package. > >Any volunteers? > >Many thanks to Jerome for his efforts over the last 1+ years. > Chris, Since Jan Nieuwenhuizen already is already maintaining the cygwin teTeX-texmf TDS tree and lillypod de

Need a tetex-beta maintainer

2002-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
Jerome BENOIT no longer has the time to maintain the tetex-beta package. Any volunteers? Many thanks to Jerome for his efforts over the last 1+ years. cgf