Re: directory structure of share/texmf in mingw and cygwin

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday, 22 January 2012, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have noticed that the directory structure of  share/texmf of mingw is different from that of cygwin.
> 
> mingw
> share/texmf/tex/
> - context/gnuplot/t-gnuplot-lua-tikz.tex
> - generic/gnuplot/gnuplot-lua-tikz-common.tex
> - latex/gnuplot/gnuplot.cfg
> - latex/gnuplot/gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty
> - latex/gnuplot/README
> - plain/gnuplot/gnuplot-lua-tikz.tex
> 
> cygwin
> share/texmf/latex/gnuplot
> - gnuplot.cfg
> - gnuplot-lua-tikz.sty
> - gnuplot-lua-tikz.tex
> - gnuplot-lua-tikz-common.tex
> - t-gnuplot-lua-tikz.tex
> 
> I do not know other platform (Linux or Mac OS) but I guess that they are the same as the cygwin.
> 
> I think that it is better to directory structure is consistent one another.

The configure script determines the LaTeX installation directory
by running 
   kpsexpand $TEXMFLOCAL

But it is true that not everything TeX-related is installed in this
same place.  I have it on my TODO list to make the installation 
of TeX files more consistent.

	Ethan

> Regards
> 
> Tatsuro
> 
> 
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