CTAN has a new package: ctanify

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Sat Jan 3 00:23:58 CET 2009


CTAN is happy to announce Scott Pakin's "ctanify" package, designed to prepare 
packages for CTAN.

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
CTAN and Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ctanify
Author's name: Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /support/ctanify
Summary description: Prepare a LaTeX package for upload to CTAN
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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ctanify is intended for developers of LaTeX packages who want to
distribute their packages via the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
(CTAN).  Given a list of filenames, ctanify creates a tarball (a
.tar.gz file) with the files laid out in CTAN's preferred structure.
The tarball additionally contains a ZIP (.zip) file with copies of all
files laid out in the standard TeX Directory Structure (TDS), which
facilitates inclusion of the package in the TeX Live distribution of
TeX.

So far, ctanify has been tested only on Linux.  Volunteers willing to
help port ctanify to other platforms are especially welcome.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ctanify
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctanify
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .



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