TeTeX and TeXLive

[Nikola Lečić]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:43:00
Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Nikola Lečić wrote:
[...]
> > I must add that I tried two times to contact two FreeBSD developers
> > who
> > (according to the public sources) seemed to be interested in this;
> > never got a single word of reply. Having in mind that I offered a
> > help, some experience and maintaining/testing availability, I can't
> > understand this. It's very discouraging.
>
> please feel free to take that as a sign that you should take the ball
> and run with it. :)

Well, according to

  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040511.html

porting of TeXLive has already been undertaken. :-) The problem is
that it's not possible to get any further information on this work.

But anyway, I don't think I can do it alone, of course. I could
probably create port(s), but the biggest challenge is that so many
other ports depend on teTeX, and re-configuring all dependencies
obviously requires huge experience, computer horsepower and
developers' hands. Therefore a help was offered and sharing future
maintaining load as well:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-July/042729.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-August/043453.html

So, once again:

* If any FreeBSD developer is currently working on TeXLive port,
  please, can we users know something about it?
* If not, is any FreeBSD developer willing to lead that project,
  publicly discuss port's infrastructure/concept, and then give us
  (who are happy to help :-)) some tasks?
* Or some user should start porting (and discuss infrastructure
  first?) and then developers will jump in?

-- 
Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић