From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/62475 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joseph Wright Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.live,gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Announcing TLContrib Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:03:17 +0100 Message-ID: <4CB021C5.2020107@morningstar2.co.uk> References: <4CAF64B3.6020303@elvenkind.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286611582 11396 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2010 08:06:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 08:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , texlive To: Taco Hoekwater Original-X-From: tex-live-bounces@tug.org Sat Oct 09 10:06:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcttl-tex-live@gmane.org Original-Received: from tug.org ([130.225.2.178]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4URZ-0005N0-DE for gcttl-tex-live@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:06:13 +0200 Original-Received: from tug.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tug.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9984xlt028404; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:04:59 +0200 X-Envelope-From: joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: from smtp.nfit.au.dk (nfitmail.nfit.au.dk [130.225.31.129]) by tug.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9983JVQ028348 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:03:22 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp.nfit.au.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.nfit.au.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1215ECDE09 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:03:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.132]) by smtp.nfit.au.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA99C0CFF for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:03:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from morningstar2.demon.co.uk ([80.176.134.7] helo=palladium.local) by anchor-post-1.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1P4UOj-00022m-hk; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:03:17 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <4CAF64B3.6020303@elvenkind.com> X-NFIT-Spammy-Behaviour: True X-NFIT-ADSL: 0 X-NFIT-RelayAddr: 195.173.77.132 X-NFIT-MX: True X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 10.19.8.13 X-Sim: 7bd141989272c14dce4268b9c9982171c4c979b363f06f452eb9aa80f6b0ecaf 3115 X-NFIT-Solido-Score: 0. X-NilSimsa-Score: 72/145 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 10.19.8.13 X-BeenThere: tex-live@tug.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "TeX Live development and testing." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tex-live-bounces@tug.org Original-Sender: tex-live-bounces@tug.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.live:27512 gmane.comp.tex.context:62475 Archived-At: On 08/10/2010 19:36, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hello everybody, > > Please allow me to introduce a new project: TLContrib. > > TLContrib is a website + repository that hosts contributed packages > for TeX Live 2010. The packages on TLContrib are packages that are > not distributed inside TeX Live proper for one or another of following > reasons: > > * because it is not free software according to the Debian guidelines; > * because it is a binary update; > * because it is not available on CTAN; > * because it is an intermediate release for testing. > > In short, anything TeX-related that can not be on TeX Live but can > still legally be distributed over the Internet can have its place > on TLContrib. > > The ultimate goal is to provide a companion to the core TeX Live > tlnet distribution in much the same way as Debian's non-free tree > is a companion to their normal, 100% free software distribution. The > goal is not to replace TeX Live: package and updates that can be part > of TeX Live itself should stay (or be added) there. TLContrib is simply > trying to fill in a gap in the current distribution system. > > > Quick start: to use TLContrib as a TeX Live repository, point the TeX > Live package manager to http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/ > > For more detailed information, visit the website: > > http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/ > > The current version of the website is preliminary, and much can still > be improved. Even so, both the website and the repository are fully > functional and can be used for both the publication of packages and > as a repository source for the TeX Live package manager. > > Currently included in the repository are: > > * context 2010.07.30 > * the context cow fonts > * luatex 0.63.0 (but not yet for all architectures) > * metapost 1.502 (also not for all architectures) > > Currently, there are binary updates for i386-linux, universal-darwin > win32, x86_64-darwin, and x86_64-linux. Mojca Miklavec and myself are > working hard on providing the missing architectures soon. > > > This announcement is also a call for more contributors: if you are the > maintainer of a package that you would like to see distributed but that > for one reason or another can not or should not be in the core TeX Live > distribution, please consider adding it to TLContrib. The website > explains the process, and it is of course possible to ask questions on > the mailing list: > > tlcontrib@ntg.nl > > Incidentally, the mailing list's web page is: > > http://www.ntg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tlcontrib > > I hope you will like this new addition to the TeX community, and I also > want to take the opportunity to thank the TeX Live and ConTeXt minimals > teams for their encouragement and ongoing help in bringing this project > to life. > > Best wishes, > Taco What's the upload procedure for package authors? Do I just send to the server my .tds.zip, or is there more to it than that. At the moment things are a bit sparse on the site :-) -- Joseph Wright