bude TeXlive8 skutecne live?

[Rudolf.Schwarz at vabo.cz]

Dobry den
Bezne moznost spousteni TeXu primo z CD nepouzivam
(jenom ve skutecne vyjimecnych pripadech),
presto souhlasim napriklad s pany Rybickou a Klocem,
ze je lepe (i za cenu komplikaci) zachovat moznost LIVE.
S pozdravem
             Rudolf.Schwarz at email.cz 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luboš Kloc [mailto:kloc at ipm.cz]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:06 PM
> To: csTeX at cs.felk.cvut.cz
> Subject: Re: bude TeXlive8 skutecne live?
> 
> 
> Bezne tuto vlastnost TL nepouzivam, protoze mam na vsech "svych"
> pocitacich TeX nainstalovany. Presto jsem uz nekolikrat 
> vyuzil moznosti
> spousteni TeXu z CD:
> 1) zrovna nedavno jsem testoval podminky vyskytu urcite chyby
>    (spatny tisk v AR 5.0, viz. archiv konference) a moznost snadno
>    prelozit stejny zkusebni soubor nekolika ruznymi verzemi
>    pdfTeXu (v tomto pripade) mne usetrila spoustu casu a prace.
> 2) Kdyz mam v tasce CD, mohu pouzivat TeX temer na 
> kteremkoliv pocitaci,
>    ke kteremu se dostanu. Na cestach uz jsem to nekolikrat vyuzil.
> 3) Pokud chci nekomu ukazat, co je to TeX, co dokaze a jak se s nim
>    pracuje primo na jeho pocitaci bez zdlouhave instalace, je 
> TL vyborny.
> 
> Zaver: tragedie by to nebyla, ale vadilo by to. Bez problemu 
> akceptovatelne
> v pripade, ze bude soucasne k dispozici (i prostrednictvim 
> CSTUGu) i nejaka
> spustitelna a spolehlive funkcni (byt rozsahem omezena) DEMO 
> distribuce.
> 
>          S pozdravem,
> 
>                      Lubos Kloc
> 
> 
> Petr Olsak wrote:
> 
> > Vazeni TeXiste,
> >
> > Pri planovani noveho TeXlive8 se ukazuje, ze se jim to uz nevejde
> > na jedno CeDe. Vyvojari TeXlive (viz nize) cekaji na 
> nazory, jak dale
> > postupovat. Jedno z reseni je, ze TeXlive uz nebude live a 
> bude obsahovat
> > komprimovane baliky. Tj. TeX nepujde spoustet z CeDecka bez 
> predchozi
> > instalace. Vadilo by to nekomu? Ozvali se nejaci Polaci, ze 
> by jim to
> > vadilo. Zajimalo by me tedy, zda vyuzivate toho, ze TeXlive 
> lze pouzit bez
> > instalace a zda byste byli ochotni akceptovat, ze to tak 
> priste uz nebude.
> >
> > Misto, abych to konzultoval na "comitee", rozhodl jsem se 
> otevrit diskusi
> > na toto tema na tomto listu. Podle Vasich reakci pak zaslu 
> Sebastianovi
> > nejakou zpravu "za Ceske a Slovenske uzivatele TeXu". Tesim 
> se na Vase
> > nazory.
> >
> > Petr Olsak
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: 06 Feb 2003 10:20:07 +0100
> > From: Sebastian Rahtz 
> <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
> > To: texlive at tug.org
> > Subject: [tex-live] texlive 8
> >
> > as it stands today, the 2 CDs come out as:
> >
> > 359568 extents written (702 Mb)
> > 350432 extents written (684 Mb)
> >
> > so we have a pretty big problem
> >
> > I am increasingly attracted by the notion of
> > 1 CD full of bzipped tar archives which the install
> > program will extract, 1 DVD with the expanded tree,
> > and a new project to build
> > a demo CD for TeX from that base. Fabrice's XEmTeX
> > work seems to be the right basis.
> >
> > Janusz makes a case for the current setup; Fabrice
> > wants a demo CD (but has his separate project). are
> > there any other votes?
> >
> > can those of who work for user groups consult your
> > committees on this subject?
> >
> > By the way, I would not propose to change the Perforce setup
> > at this stage. I'd reckon to build the packages CD
> > automatically from it.
> >
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