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[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> Is it better to install the source or binary of texmacs? I want to install
> it on my mac 10.2. I just want to get your opinions of the benefits or
> limitations of each type.

As Ingolf said, on MacOSX you will in either case get an older version, 
in fact the same version 1.0.4 whether you install the precompiled 
binary or you compile from source. If you want to use Fink to get a more 
recent version of texmacs, I would recommend to do the following:

Copy the file /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/editors/texmacs.info 
to the directory /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/. If that directory 
does not exist, create it and make it writable for yourself. Then edit 
this file temacs.info by replacing the lines

Version: 1.0.4
Revision: 2

by

Version: 1.0.6.6
Revision: 1

and the line

Source-MD5: 62869c522ae939c485c6f04144c0feeb

by

Source-MD5: 53e21e5cb1a536a60cd6fb28dcb598d9

Then try to build texmacs from source. There is a chance that it will go 
through, but since nobody tried this before on 10.2, it may also fail, 
perhaps due to too old versions of some dependencies.

--
Martin