4 Oct
2016
4 Oct
'16
3:41 a.m.
Two things: (1) I too am happy to see that a new release candidate is coming along (2) I have two Solaris boxes where I don't have root privilege and a Mac desktop and a Mac laptop where I don't have root privilege, so it's *really* nice if I can install in ~/local just by ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local.
We are tempted to go for this solution, at least for the first release candidate:
- source distribution (via git) -- with relaxed minimum dependencies
(so that we can get a working system even if emacs and TeX is not installed)
This sounds good. Thanks to the 32-bit vs 64-bit shift, relaxed minimum *library* dependencies sounds good too.
For OSX, a .dmg that I can drag into ~/Applications is all I need. For Solaris, I expect to build from sources.