[Info-vax] LaTeX etc. on VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <qnvd2d$3ar$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry"
<craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes: 

> On 10/13/19 6:46 AM, Richard Levitte wrote:
> > https://www.tug.org/texlive/
> > 
> > TeX Live seems to be *the* dist du jour.
> > 
> > I have no idea whatsoever what kind of work is needed to bring it up
> > to speed on VMS. It might be simple, it might be a major pain in the
> > darker regions... I wish I had the time, but sadly, I'm already majorly
> > sucked in elsewhere.
> 
> The prerequisites are here:
> 
> <https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlbuild.html#Prerequisites>
> 
> For starters, it needs C++11, so it's unlikely ever to build on Alpha or
> Itanium, and it's likely a year or two before it could even be attempted
> on x86_64.

Is the Pascal version of TeX now history?