Comments on: The TDS and TDS zip files http://www.texdev.net/2009/10/12/the-tds-and-tds-zip-files/ Coding in the TeX world Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:08:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Will Robertson http://www.texdev.net/2009/10/12/the-tds-and-tds-zip-files/comment-page-1/#comment-1384 Will Robertson Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:12:36 +0000 http://www.texdev.net/?p=494#comment-1384 I like to think that providing TDS zip files streamlines the process of the CTAN and TeX Live and (hopefully) MiKTeX maintainers, who no longer need to worry if I intended "foo.tex" to be a source file or a documentation file, say. The emergence of tools like Scott Pakin's ctanify (and your own scripts for Windows) should help to standardise the process further for developers. Windows makes it very easy to drop one TDS directory onto your local texmf tree and merge the two; on the Mac, however, doing this will overwrite the texmf tree :) so you need to resort to the command line to merge two folders. I like to think that providing TDS zip files streamlines the process of the CTAN and TeX Live and (hopefully) MiKTeX maintainers, who no longer need to worry if I intended “foo.tex” to be a source file or a documentation file, say.

The emergence of tools like Scott Pakin’s ctanify (and your own scripts for Windows) should help to standardise the process further for developers.

Windows makes it very easy to drop one TDS directory onto your local texmf tree and merge the two; on the Mac, however, doing this will overwrite the texmf tree :) so you need to resort to the command line to merge two folders.

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