Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi Hans (and others),
I've been playing with the linuxtex.zip today, and I've noticed some things that may or may not be interesting to you:
* it would be better to use tar.bz2 archives (instead of zip). The archive would be quite a bit smaller, and the file permissions would remain unaltered (so that the exes are actually executable after extraction).
i'll look into it (when i played with it long ago it was so slow ... -)
* the binaries can be stripped to gain some 1.6 megabytes of compressed size (4 mb uncompressed):
interesting, can you also propose that on the tex live list?
51 files, 3091342 bytes uncompressed, 1473221 bytes compressed vs. 51 files, 7230683 bytes uncompressed, 3068044 bytes compressed
* cm-super is still included, but should be obsolete now thanks to latin-modern, right?
i'll check it, we still need part of cmsuper (cyrillic)
* likewise for the cs/pl/vnr metrics.
indeed, these can go
* perhaps this is even true for the CM pfb files?
that is, the non-math ones; we can even consider copying the cm math ones to lmmath ones, but then we need to coordinate that with jacko and sebastian (we discussed it at bachotek)
* the executables that are included are a bit old (pdfetex 1.21a, mpost 0.641).
yeah ... i'm dependent
* And of course the 64bit version has no executables at all.
Does it make sense for me to (attempt to) clean this up, or would my changes get lost soon anyway? Perhaps me or someone else can even start maintaining these files for you (using a project on FP's SVN server)?
It would be great if there was a place where i could fetch the linux binaries! The rest of the files, i first need to clean up here since i generate them with scripts and it should be synced with other things; after that we can indeed consider setting up a context specific texmf repository at fp's svn so that others can maintain specific parts (fonts, binaries, etc); 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------