[tex-live] 2015 pretest

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 9:57 AM, jfbu wrote:
> Le 13 avr. 2015 at 09:53, Mojca Miklavec:
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 9:43 AM, jfbu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to try out the TL2015 pretest,
>>>
>>> but I don't understand the situation with binaries, for example in
>>>
>>> /Users/???/Downloads/TL2015/bin/x86_64-darwin
>>>
>>> I have
>>>
>>> ttys000:Downloads (09:36)$ ls -l TL2015/bin/x86_64-darwin/xetex
>>> -rwx------  1 ??? ????  19431216 22 mai  2014 TL2015/bin/x86_64-darwin/xetex
>>>
>>> which is the TL2014 (not 2015) binary
>>
>> True. The tlpretest repository for 2015 hasn't even been announced
>> anywhere yet and it is not yet ready.
>> Most "TL 2015" binaries haven't even been compiled yet.
>>
>> If you want to experiment, you need to wait for at least a couple of
>> days (or more).
>>
>> Mojca
>
> ah, thanks for the quick explanation
>
> I was following
>
>> Plan for TeX Live 2015:
>> 13mar: sources committed, builds begin.
>> 10apr: tlnet (and TL'14) frozen, tlpretest starts, CTAN updates continue there.
>> 8may: complete code freeze for final build.
>> 15may: final updates from CTAN, final doc tweaks.
>> 22may: deliver TL image for TeX Collection packaging/testing.
>> 5jun: deliver TeX Collection DVD image for manufacturing.
>> 12jun: public release (also of MacTeX).
>> July?: delivery of DVDs to members.
>
> which I found on tug.org page
>
> I didn't know tlpretest had not started, the schedule lists it with
> a link for how to proceed,

It is still on schedule. The TL'14 repository was frozen and tlpretest
*is* there. (If you would try a few days earlier you would only see an
empty repository, no packages). But it is called "pretest" with a good
reason. Code and binaries have to transition from 2014 to 2015 *after*
TL'14 is frozen, meaning that at the moment of the initial tlpretest
setup, most of the stuff (if not everything other than repository
version) is still at "2014". You have to wait for a few days until the
person responsible for builds for your platform commits the binaries
(http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/).

Once that is settled, there will certainly be one problem or another
that will have to be discovered and fixed in the timeframe of the
testing period.

Mojca