Changes between Initial Version and Version 3 of Ticket #41980
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Ticket #41980 – Description
initial v3 1 The [ http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/pTeX pTeX port] is currently based on unmaintained/obsolete and horribly outdated tetex distribution which saw the last release in 2006 (see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib and http://www.tug.org/tetex/):1 The [browser:trunk/dports/tex/pTeX pTeX port] is currently based on unmaintained/obsolete and horribly outdated tetex distribution which saw the last release in 2006 (see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/systems/unix/teTeX/3.0/distrib and http://www.tug.org/tetex/): 2 2 3 3 > I (Thomas Esser) have decided not to make new releases of teTeX any more (May 2006). The information below might get out of date as time goes by. I suggest anybody interested in teTeX to join the TeX Live project. … … 10 10 * there are many unnecessary conflicts (see #39705) since pTeX provides copies of the same (but outdated) utilities that are already part of TeX Live and in most cases there is no need for a copy (if the utility from `texlive-bin` wasn't in direct conflict with pTeX) 11 11 * there are random other failures, like a failure to run doxygen (#26002) 12 * often duplicate patches are needed ([ http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/pTeX/files/archive/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff pTeX/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff] vs. [http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/tex/texlive-bin/files/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff texlive-bin/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff] for example)12 * often duplicate patches are needed ([browser:trunk/dports/tex/pTeX/files/archive/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff pTeX/dvipdfmx-clang-%2339334.diff] vs. [browser:trunk/dports/tex/texlive-bin/files/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff texlive-bin/patch-svn31700-dvipdfmx.diff] for example) 13 13 * it makes supporting pTeX a lot more difficult 14 14