[tex-live] t;18 pretest init

Maïeul Rouquette maieul at maieul.net
Tue Apr 18 17:57:56 CEST 2017


Le 18 avr. 2017 à 17:48, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On 18 April 2017 at 17:44, Maïeul Rouquette wrote:
>> Le 18 avr. 2017 à 17:37, Mojca Miklavec a écrit :
>>> 
>>> You still have all the latest and greatest TeX Live binaries for older
>>> platforms, you just loose the "one click to install that 4 GB dmg". If
>>> you need GUIs, you can install an older MacTeX or fetch them. If you
>>> are on an ancient platform, there's a good chance that those GUIs are
>>> no longer receiving any updates anyway.
>> 
>> I don't understand: the only problem is the installer, but the binaries will be ready ?
> 
> All the command-line tools (other than perhaps the latest dvisvgm and
> a few more) will be available and you can always install them with
> tlmgr as on any other unix (or windows) platform. You can even use
> Perl/Tk (requires X11) if you need a GUI. It's just that the 4 GB dmg
> installer for MacTeX will no longer work on < 10.10.
> 
> Mojca

So, there will be a tlmgr command to tell to switch from texlive 2016 to texlive 2017?


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