From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Sat Oct 4 16:12:31 2008 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 16:12:31 +0200 Subject: [Ii2-announce] New i-Installer version 2.92. New i-Package for LZMA compression Message-ID: <748B4D64-B4D1-46F2-BC15-649CC2F0154B@rna.nl> i-Installer has been updated to version 2.92. One change: support for OS X version limitations in the i-Package. This enables me to create i- Packages that will work on 10.5 and up only. It will be pretty likely that upcoming i-Package updates will be 10.5 and up only as I do not have 10.4 systems anymore to build and building for 10.4 on 10.5 has turned out to be a nightmare. There is also a new i-Package: LZMA. It wIll install only on 10.5 if you use i-Installer 2.92. i-Installer 2.91 will happily install this on 10.4 and probably for this i-Package that will work. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Sun Oct 5 16:19:09 2008 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:19:09 +0200 Subject: [Ii2-announce] TeX Live Extra's i-Package released (includes GTAMacFonts) Message-ID: <88F5921C-9CDB-477E-8483-94D0797CF2A8@rna.nl> I have released a special i-Package for TeX Live, "TeX Live Support: GW Extras". This i-Package contains GTAMacFonts and TeXDist: - GTAMacFonts requires the fondu program to work (i-Package available). It will unpack several Apple System fonts and make them usable for TeX. After installation, run "texdoc gtamacfonts" on the command line to get the documentation. These fonts need to be unpacked on your system for legal reasons, hence they cannot be fully part of a free TeX distribution. The i-Package installs the (free license) support files (e.g. style files) and then generates the ttf files from Apple's fonts and puts them in your texmf-local. - TeXDist is a way to represent TeX distributions and work with them. A texdist program is added to work with different distributions from the command line (texdist --help will give you documentation). It also installs the Preference Pane from J?r?me Laurens so you can switch TeX distributions easily. G PS. I am moving to TeX Live 2008 as my default system. This means that in the future I will probably completely drop any personal TeX distributions for my own use. I have not decided what to do with the existing stuff. From gerben.wierda at rna.nl Tue Oct 7 12:31:31 2008 From: gerben.wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:31:31 +0200 Subject: [Ii2-announce] i-Installer 2.93: small improvement Message-ID: New version: 2.93. The behaviour that i-Installer reacts to a "minimum OS X version" setting in the i-Package has been changed in that it turns into a soft check (warning only) if you run the following command on the command line while i-Installer is not running: defaults write -app i-Installer softosxcheck YES This enables people to install i-Package that are designed for 10.5 while running 10.4. Obvious caveats apply of course. G From Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl Wed Oct 8 19:40:21 2008 From: Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:40:21 +0200 Subject: [Ii2-announce] Between a rock and a hard place Message-ID: <06229189-259D-4054-94AD-2BA62013F5B4@rna.nl> Earlier this year I have attempted to support Mac OS X 10.4 while I am myself running on 10.5 exclusively. This has turned out to be a nightmare and I have to conclude it is not possible. In the meantime I had already updated a few i-Packages with these builds and when I found out it did not work with 10.4 I blocked them As I do not have a G4 & Intel 10.4 setup (and rebooting takes too much time for me to be able to do my maintenance work in the few minutes here and there or in the background as I am working on something else) and buying a G4 mini and an Intel mini to support 10.4 which I do not use myself is a bit out of budget ;-). So, being stuck with a few broken i-Packages and no way to get them built for 10.4, I have decided to rebuild them, this time for 10.5 only. This effectively means I am dropping 10.4 form my maintenance setup. Secondly: I have removed sources for previous TeX versions from my systems (space problems) and I will not anymore provide/maintain my own distribution. Instead I have started to use TeX Live (installed directly from TeX Live) and what I will do is maintain stuff like the TL GW Extras i-Package which contains GTAMacFonts support for TeX Live. More announcements will follow. G