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[Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden>]

> From: Martin Costabel <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:39:04 +0200
> To: Bob Lounsbury <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Source or binary?
> 
> 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
> 

Thank you for the detailed reply on how to possibly install a newer version
of texmacs. I will probably update the computer to Leopard when it comes out
next year, so for now I'm going to do as Ingolf said and just install the
binary and see if that will suffice for writing my thesis.

Regards,
Bob