On Jan 14, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
I am the maintainer of the texlive package (with openmaintainer) and since the port exists, the only bugs reported were "does not compile in leopard" (which is now solved) and "a lex file is not understood by macports' lex on ppc" (which was reported and corrected by Simon). So It seems to me texlive *2007* is stable enough. More, it is the same package that is used in openBSD ports and pkgsrc so if there are bugs, they should also occur for them.
On the other side, I don't have leopard, my mac is an old powerbook ppc with little ram (and I use it less and less) hence I cannot test deeply this package, neither correct bugs or feature requests*. So I would encourage anybody interested in tex to join in maintainership. Especially when texlive 2008 will appear.
I exercise some of the configurations you don't (leopard, intel, plenty of disk/mips; 10.3, ppc) so I'm happy to help either implicitly through openmaintainer or explicitly. I have considerably less experience when it comes to *TeX innovations of the past 5 years (XeTeX in particular) so it would still be good if someone who exercises the font-heavy side of things were around. Thanks, Eric