Re: setuptex changes in minimals (was: bugs in beta)

[Yanrui Li <liyanrui.m2@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:46, Yanrui Li wrote:
>>
>> Recently I have found some environment variables in setuptex script
>> are commented out sometimes, such as TEXMFLOCAL, TEXMFCONTEXT and so
>> on. Is this be done deliberately?
>
> Yes (we were bored during some Polish talks at BachoTeX).
>
> The reason for setuptex setting all those variables in the old days
> was to override tetex's environmental variables, but in principle this
> is not needed at all unless tetex is present on computer. The reason
> for removing them again was to make sure that Hans' scripts work
> properly even when no environmental variable is set (which will be the
> case on TeX Live for example).
>
> The only variable change that's really needed is fixing PATH, but it's
> so convenient to be able to run
>    ". /path/to/setuptex"
> instead of typing the long
>    export PATH="/path/to/minimals/bin:$PATH"
>
> We nevertheless left two or three variables since ConTeXt didn't yet
> work properly without them, but we'll remove those as well.
>
> If anyone uses minimals on tetex, we can create an additional file
> again that would enable complete isolation.
>
> We didn't clean up the windows script yet as it would need some more
> testing (and we had enough problem by minimals not running at all on
> unix), but that's still on TODO list ...
>
> We also silently added TEXMFHOME (while Hans was not watching), but
> maybe we need to change the exact path.
>
> If you have any particular question or request about that, let us know.
>

Thanks for your explanation. Now I see.

I have no questions for these, only I have to modify instruction of these
variables in the tutorial which I wrote for Chinese users :)

-- 
Best wishes,
Li Yanrui
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