Hi Taco, This is a great effort, thanks! On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 02:36, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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 an intermediate release for testing.

Will it be possible to filter out the testing releases? Many people would only want to update to those package and binary versions that are declared (reasonably) stable. Best, Dee

On 8 Oct, 2010, at 13:36, 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;

[...]

Quick start: to use TLContrib as a TeX Live repository, point the TeX Live package manager to http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/

Great! I just tried (on a Mac) tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/ update --all --list and it gave me a list of binaries to update (ConTeXt, LuaTeX, Metapost); then I checked my LuaTeX version: ``This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.2-2010071217 (TeX Live 2010) (rev 3736)'', and then sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/ update luatex tlmgr: package repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/ tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups [1/3, ??:??/??:??] update: luatex.universal-darwin [2545k] (19430 -> 19431) ... done [2/3, 00:27/00:51] update: luatex.x86_64-darwin [1478k] (19430 -> 19431) ... done [3/3, 00:43/00:51] update: luatex [809k] (19324 -> 19328) ... done tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log running mktexlsr ... done running mktexlsr. regenerating fmtutil.cnf in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-format --byengine luatex ... done running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-format --byengine luatex. And now I have ``LuaTeX, Version beta-0.63.0-2010091123''. Very nice! Thank you and Mojca (the darwin LuaTeX maintainer)! Axel

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

Dne petek 8. oktobra 2010 ob 20:36:35 je Taco Hoekwater napisal(a):

* because it is not free software according to the Debian guidelines; * because it is a binary update;

At a first (and second) glance, I don't feel exactly comfortable with these two. Would you care to explain them a bit more? Does "not free according to Debian" mean that it *is* free according to FSF and/or OSI? Binary updates as in closed source or as in e.g. pictures? Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje@gabbler.org