Hello, On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:48:13PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > Dear Heiko and LaTeX folks, > > I have tried to generate TDS archives that can be unpacked > in a texmf tree directly. > [...] > http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~oberdiek/tmp/latex-tds/index.html > > I agree with the general sentiment that this is great, but would it be > possible for these TDS-compliant archives of the LaTeX trees themselves > to be on CTAN, somehow? The intention of "tmp" in the url was to mark this as temporary solution. * I have read a posting in comp.text.tex that the CTAN managers are currently busy. * It is also a kind of test phase for detecting bugs and whether the sorting the files into the TDS tree structure is ok. * Is this "redistribution" compliant with LPPL? Is this considered as "Compiled Work"? With the exception of inputenc.dtx (fixing the bug in order to be able to compile it) the sources are unmodified during the generation of the PDF files, however special configuration files are used. Would Clause 3 of "Conditions on Distribution and Modification" apply? > And having them on CTAN makes it easier to use them for TL (and other > distributions, I imagine). I agree. > Perhaps, for example, > macros/latex/base-tds.zip > macros/latex/required/cyrillic-tds.zip > macros/latex/required/graphics-tds.zip > macros/latex/required/tools-tds.zip This would be a user-friendly solution and could even be introduced as general scheme. There are package authors who already provide TDS archives and I intend to do it for my packages. And it saves disk space because the TDS archive is not included in the CTAN zip archive, e.g. package foobar: CTAN directory: macros/latex/contrib/foobar/ CTAN archive: macros/latex/contrib/foobar.zip TDS archive: macros/latex/contrib/foobar-tds.zip Back to latex-tds. I think the location above needs the permission of the LaTeX project team. Without permission perhaps macros/latex/contrib/latex-tds/ That would allow me to add a short README (with generation date) and perhaps the sources for the interested (basically the sources consist of a perl script and configuration files). Then macros/latex/base-tds.zip ... could be made symbol links. Yours sincerely Heiko <[log in to unmask]>