[tex-live] TeX Live 2009 released

[Victor Ivrii]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Robin Fairbairns
<Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tonight first updates came. I understand that making into TL updates
>> all updated or new packages  popped at CTAN for the last month is an
>> extremely daunting and tedious task. I suspect that the earliest such
>> package is eso-pic of September 30 (unfortunately I can find neither
>> date nor version number but documentation in TL2009 pretest-updated
>> and on CTAN differ) but I may be mistaken
>
> i spent a large part of the day tl09 appeared updating the ctan
> catalogue.  this was because all the things that have appeared on ctan
> since the freeze, had appeared in tl09; i needed to update the catalogue
> entry to point at the tl package.
>
> so no, there has been no hiatus of "ctan uploads sitting waiting".  tl08
> was frozen because tl09's tlnet was defined differently, and the team
> (quite reasonably) decided they didn't want to maintain both trees in
> parallel, and they obviously wanted an up-to-date tlnet at day 1 of
> tl09.
>
> you can expect updates to tlnet, as and when things appear on ctan.
>
> robin
>


Robin, I am NOT talking about permafrost of TL2008 but about "small
ice period" of TL2009 pretest:


> On Mo, 02 Nov 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:
>> just wondering whether packages aren't updated in TL09 testing at the
>> moment.

> Because we are in freeze mode, we wanted to release 2 weeks ago, then
> some security problems were found and we are trying to fix them since
> then. No package has been updated and will be updated until we release,
> which might be rather soon, or in 1 month :-(

> Best wishes

> Norbert


Victor
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