Need a teTeX-beta maintainer

[Nicholas Wourms]

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>>It makes some kind of sense.  But I already made another vague promise
>>(netpbm) that I haven't kept until now.
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>>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:
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>>  * 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
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>>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).
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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.

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>>If I can get the beast to cross build, and get it tested, I may step
>>forward to be the maintainer.
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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...

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>>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.
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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