[tex-live] Structure proposal for TL2005
Gerben Wierda
Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Wed Nov 17 10:57:26 CET 2004
I would like to propose the following directory structure for TL2005
and teTeX (in the hope that they will finally become unified and I can
have a real link between TL and teTeX and my installation stuff so that
they are interchangeable):
.../programs/<archname>/bin (contains binaries like pdfetex)
.../programs/<archname>/lib (contains libkpathsea.a)
.../programs/include
.../programs/man
.../programs/info
.../programs/texmf (contains .tcx and .pool files)
.../foundation/texmf-dist (contains basic support stuff, like it is
now)
.../foundation/texmf-foo (any other separate tree maintained by a
redistributor, like me)
.../local/texmf (where local changes and additions are made)
The reasons are:
1. Make a clear separation between stuff that is hardware architecture
dependent and that what is not
2. Make a clear separation between the programs (TeX is a compiler
after all) and the macro packages and stuff
3. Make a clear separation between local and installed
4. Unify TL and teTeX
G
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