Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Rename texlive to tex.

[Roel Janssen]

John Darrington writes:

> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote:
>      * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Rename texlive.scm to tex.scm.
>      * gnu/packages/texlive.scm: Rename file to tex.scm.
>      * gnu/packages/tex.scm: Renamed from texlive.scm.
>      * gnu/packages/algebra.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/docbook.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/engineering.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/gettext.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/gnome.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/lisp.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/maths.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/music.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/ocaml.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/plotutils.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/python.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>      * gnu/packages/scheme.scm: Rename texlive to tex.
>
> What is the purpose of doing that?  I thought that texlive was the chosen
> name that the project had.
>
> I think there are a few other implementations of TeX in the wild (though 
> mostly unmaintained).  Furthermore, I think Knuth has a trademark on the word 
> "tex".
>
> J'

See this thread:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00702.html

I want to add Texmaker (an editor for TeX).  Putting it in texlive.scm
wouldn't really fit because it's not part of Texlive.  So, the idea is
to put everything TeX-related into one file (tex.scm).

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen