Re: [MiKTeX] Package submission undesired?

[Paulo N. de S. <desouza@Math.Berkeley.EDU>]

I think you are definitly underestimating the complexity of the installation
of "tex4ht". The package is one of the hardest to install in the TeX realm.
The documentation is almost non-existing, full of errors, it does not even
have release numbers or a Makefile to compile executables. Almost everything 
has to be done by hand and have to be translated from Unix to Windows by 
hand, things as simple as "using KPATHSEA"  are not default, and have 
instructions that work on some compilers and not in others, and from there 
it goes ...

By the way, your recipe below fails miserably on item 4, I just tried on a 
fresh inatallation of MikTeX and it does NOT work.

Paulo Ney

    >From mik...@li...  Wed Mar 16 10:16:09 2005
    >To: mik...@li...
    >From: Paul Thompson <pa...@wu...>
    >Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Package submission undesired?
    >
    >It is of course easy to update a single package yourself, 
	>as I am sure you know.
    >
    >Here is what I would do:
    >1) Set up a local tree, and inform MikTeX about this during setup or using 
    >the MikTeX Update tool.
    >2) Go to CTAN and download the package.
    >3) Add the updated version to the local tree.
    >4) Run the Update Wizard
    >
    >You should then have a package consistent with the most recent version at 
    >CTAN, and do not need to depend on the maintainer.
    >
    >Paul A. Thompson, Ph.D.
    >Division of Biostatistics
    >Washington University School of Medicine
    >660 S. Euclid, St. Louis, MO 63110
    >314-747-3793
    >
    >pa...@wu...