Norbert Preining wrote:
On Mo, 19 Mai 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
for that to happen we need to define what system is and what is user in a pretty consistent and cross platform way (and not in the tetex n*m permutations way)
system: TEXMFDIST TEXMFMAIN TEXMFLOCAL TEXMFSYSCONFIG TEXMFSYSVAR
i suppose that this is the order in $TEXMF in tex live then (on my machines and in the minimals we have a different order, i.e. local before main and so) just wondering ... how is a system wide update taking place (since local comes last) ... is the policy now "wipe out and install anew), if so, why still local?
user: TEXMFHOME TEXMFVAR TEXMFCONFIG
THat is how TL2008 will work on *ALL* supported platforms, including windows.
TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf where ~ -> $HOME on unix ~ -> %USERPROFILE% on win32 etc
Yes, till TL2007 we didn't have the distinction of SYS <-> non-SYS on windows. But TL2008 will have exactely the same approach on all platforms, including the same scripts (updmap-sys vs updmap, ...)
so eventually the mac is also consistent now Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------