[tex-live] I am very angry now.

Yue Wang yuleopen at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 00:36:16 CET 2009


The evil script is here. and this time I was able to cast two
screenshot since all files are back up into a dvd.

I am using winxp, english version.
And in Control Panel->Regional Language Options, I choose Chinese(PRC)
as the language for non-Unicode programs.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Mi, 14 Jan 2009, Yue Wang wrote:
>> Yes, I have backup for most files. (although not recent backup, I lost
>
> Good to hear.
>
>> During the installation, the installer pop up a dialog and ask me
>> whether to uninstall or not.
>
> Yes, that is right.
>
>> Then it launch a command window and showed certain normal things, and
>> then it showed:
>> -- Deleting c:/Music/....
>
> *VERY* strange, because the uninstaller is created at installation time
> (that is the reason why I asked you for that) and it tries to make sure
> not to remove anything outside the tree.
>
> Assuming that you have not installed into c:/Music/... I cannot grok it.
>
>> OK, I will do it the day after tomorrow. (I should restore my hard
>> drive first, and make a new backup to dvd, since it is dangerous~).
>
> Do simply the installation, without the uninstallation, and send the
> files in tlpkg/installer/ (uninst.bat, uninst2.bat, unshort.bat). That
> should suffice.
>
>> There is also a problem with the installer. Sometimes it install
>> programs to C:\Program\texlive instead of C:\Program Files\texlive.
>> But it is not easy to reproduce the problem:(
>
> Hmm, strange. What language version of Windows do you have? But this
> looks like a quoting problem, no idea where it could come from.
>
>> And most time even the installation path is right(Program Files), if I
>> run luatools --generate, context --make, it assumes the texlive
>> installation is in C:\Program\texlive. Pretty strange...
>
> Yes, that is a known issue, I think Taco or Hans posted already several
> times that spaces in names are NOT supported in ConTeXt markIV, ie all
> the lua stuff. Here I cannot do anything against that.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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