Re: Need a teTeX-beta maintainer

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

> > It makes some kind of sense.  But I already made another vague promise
> > (netpbm) that I haven't kept until now.
> >
> >
> > This moring after reading Christopher's mail, I downloaded tetex-beta
> > and latest sources to see if I could painlessly take over.  I spent a
> > good hour poking around, but I found that:
> >
> >  * tetex isn't prepared for --srcdir builds (annoying)
> >  * tetex isn't prepared for cross builds (showstopper)
> >  * Jerome's Cygwin fixes have still not found their way upstream
> >  * Jerome's Cygwin patch isn't prepared for --srcdir builds
> >
> >
> > So...  I'll promise to take a look at it, because I really like to
> > have a good tetex package in Cygwin.  But, I can't promise to take it
> > over yet, as I don't run Windows (and thus also no cygwin).
Perhaps, if you have a copy of windows kicking around, you might try 
VMware?  I've even heard rumors that someone got it running under Wine.


> > If I can get the beast to cross build, and get it tested, I may step
> > forward to be the maintainer.
Thanks for all your hard work!  Your points are all well put, so I 
completely understand where you are coming from.  *Sigh*  If only 
updating teTeX modules were as easy as updating a perl module...


> > Btw: I've been putting quite some time in getting a fine guile release
> >     to cross build for Cygwin, because this has a high priority for
> >     me.  But as yet I can't get a shared version linked.  It seems I
> >     need the latest autotools from cygwin, but I need them as cross
> >     build tools.
Pretty much all of Chuck's updates to libtool have been pushed upstream 
starting about a week or two ago.  I believe the same can be said for 
the other autotools.  You'll probably want to get the new gettext/iconv 
as well.  I'd reccommend getting HEAD CVS sources of libtool and 
autoconf, plus the automake-1.6.2 releases.

Cheers,
Nicholas