Changes between Initial Version and Version 3 of Ticket #41980


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Timestamp:
Jan 3, 2014, 12:17:03 AM (10 years ago)
Author:
ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Comment:

I'm in favor of reducing port conflicts and replacing older software with newer software. But I don't think I have anything to add to this ticket so I'll un-Cc.

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  • Ticket #41980 – Description

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    1 The [http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/pTeX pTeX port] is currently based on unmaintained/obsolete and horribly outdated tetex distribution which saw the last release in 2006 (see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib and http://www.tug.org/tetex/):
     1The [browser:trunk/dports/tex/pTeX pTeX port] is currently based on unmaintained/obsolete and horribly outdated tetex distribution which saw the last release in 2006 (see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib and http://www.tug.org/tetex/):
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    33> I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live project.
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    1010  * there are many unnecessary conflicts (see #39705) since pTeX provides copies of the same (but outdated) utilities that are already part of TeX Live and in most cases there is no need for a copy (if the utility from `texlive-bin` wasn't in direct conflict with pTeX)
    1111  * there are random other failures, like a failure to run doxygen (#26002)
    12   * often duplicate patches are needed ([http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/pTeX/files/archive/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff pTeX/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff] vs. [http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/texlive-bin/files/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff texlive-bin/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff] for example)
     12  * often duplicate patches are needed ([browser:trunk/dports/tex/pTeX/files/archive/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff pTeX/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff] vs. [browser:trunk/dports/tex/texlive-bin/files/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff texlive-bin/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff] for example)
    1313  * it makes supporting pTeX a lot more difficult
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