CTAN update: ctanify

This has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at your local mirror. Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: ctanify Version number: 1.1 Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: /support/ctanify Summary description: Prepare a 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. Version 1.1 incorporates a patch submitted by Kirill Maslinsky that adds a command-line option to create only a TDS directory as opposed to a complete tarball. The documentation now separates commonly used command-line options from more obscure options and, at Juergen Fenn's request, notes that ctanify does not automatically run latex on the user's behalf.

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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 .