MiKTeX Blog

I am planning to make available the new MiKTeX CD-R/DVD-R next week. The CD-R will contain a snapshot of the MiKTeX package repository. The DVD-R contains a "live" MiKTeX system.

The MiKTeX CD-R is available again. It contains a "live" MiKTeX system (as at 2/21/2006).

Some not so important packages had to be omitted from the distribution in order to make it fit on the CD-R.

It seems that the current MiKTeX-CD got too big for this year's ProTeXt. Thomas Feuerstack asked me to free 50 MB. Impossible! I advised Thomas to create a non-"Live" version of ProTeXt: the CD then contains a snapshot of the current package repository. This approach has three drawbacks:

• you cannot run MiKTeX from CD
• the setup process takes longer (cabinet files have to be extracted)
• you loose the ability to share MiKTeX in a network environment

I have uploaded a pretest version of the MiKTeX CD (ISO image):

http://www.tug.org/ftp/tex/miktex/

The final version (available some time in July) will be the base for this year's ProTeXt.

Lots of updated packages have been commited to the repository. My todo list ist much shorter now :-) BTW, you will notice that we have reached a special version number: 2004 days since Jan 1, 2000 (as of June 27, 2005).

I will wait a few days before I create the public ISO image.

I am planning to make available the ISO image of the latest MiKTeX CD. Upload to the TUG server is planned for mid-June. It will be announced in the forum.