mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, TeXmacs wrote:
> For the sake of stability, TeXmacs 2.1 will be based on Qt4 and Guile 1.8.
The TeXmacs package in Gentoo is based on Qt5 for quite long time, and 
works fine. Qt4 is absent in Gentoo for ages.

> Massimiliano made a lot of progress on Qt5 and Guile 2, but this will
> require a significant amount of testing before it will become stable.
> That will be our next major objective for version 2.2,
> which will hopefully be released in 2020.
Thank you for the information.

> We ship ready-to-run binary packages for the most widely used
> GNU Linux distributions as well as MacOS and Windows.
> This is not necessarily that bad, because standard distributions
> did not always do a good job when building TeXmacs packages.
Many Linux users and developers try to avoid to install software not via 
the native package manager of the distro they use. This is especially true 
for software than bundles outdated libraries. Critical vulnerabilities are 
usually quickly fixed in libraries which are installed in the normal way; 
but if there are colies of these libraries bundled by some application, 
such vulnerabilities stay unfixed arbitrarily long.

> But thanks for maintaining the Gentoo package; it remains very useful
> to have TeXmacs inside standard distributions if the job is well done.
> I am also in the process of listing GNU Linux distributions which did
> not gave up; it seems to me that both Gentoo and Arch Linux remain
> reasonably up-to-date.  You know of any others?
No

Best wishes,
Andrey