ctanify(1) ctanify(1)
NAME
ctanify - Prepare a package for upload to CTAN
SYNOPSIS
ctanify [--pkgname=string] [--[no]auto] [--tdsonly=filespec ...]
[--[no]unixify] [--[no]skip] [--tdsdir=dirname ...] [--tex=macro_pkg]
[--[no]miscify] [--[no]tds] filespec[=dirname] ...
ctanify [--help]
ctanify [--version]
DESCRIPTION
ctanify is intended for developers who have a LaTeX package that they
want to distribute 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.
OPTIONS
ctanify accepts the following command-line options:
-h, --help
Output basic usage information and exit.
-V, --version
Output ctanify's version number and exit.
-p string, --pkgname=string
Specify explicitly a package name. Normally, ctanify uses the
base name of the first .ins or .sty file listed as the package
name. The package name forms the base name of the tarball that
ctanify produces.
--noauto
Do not automatically add files to the tarball. Normally, ctanify
automatically includes all files mentioned in a .ins file.
-t filespec, --tdsonly=filespec
Specify a subset of the files named on the command line to include
only in the TDS ZIP file, not in the CTAN package directory.
Wildcards are allowed (quoted if necessary), and --tdsonly can be
used multiple times on the same command line.
At least one filename must be specified on the command line. ctanify
automatically places files in the TDS tree based on their extension,
but this can be overridden by specifying explicitly a target TDS
directory using the form filespec=dirname. Wildcards are allowed for
the filespec (quoted if necessary).
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
The following options are unlikely to be necessary in ordinary usage.
They are provided for special circumstances that may arise.
-d dirname, --tdsdir=dirname
Instead of creating a tarball for CTAN, merely create the package
TDS tree rooted in directory dirname.
-T macro_pkg, --tex=macro_pkg
Assert that the files being packaged for CTAN target a TeX macro
package other than LaTeX. Some common examples of macro_pkg are
"generic", "plain", and "context".
-nou, --no-unixify
Store text files unmodified instead of converting their end-of-
line character to Unix format (a single linefeed character with no
carriage-return character), even though CTAN prefers receiving all
files with Unix-format end-of-line characters.
-nok, --no-skip
Force ctanify to include files such as Unix hidden files, Emacs
backup files, and version-control metadata files, all of which
CTAN dislikes receiving.
-m, --miscify
Rename directories containing a single file to "misc". (For
example, rename "tex/latex/mypackage/mypackage.sty" to
"tex/latex/misc/mypackage.sty".) This was common practice in the
past but is now strongly discouraged.
-nos, --no-tds
Do not embed a .tds.zip file in the generated tarball.
DIAGNOSTICS
"Failed to copy filename (No such file or directory)"
This message is typically caused by a .ins file that generates
filename but that has not already been run through tex or latex to
actually produce filename. ctanify does not automatically run tex
or latex; this needs to be done manually by the user. See
"CAVEATS" for more information.
"Modified filename to use Unix line endings (use --no-unixify to
prevent this)"
For consistency, CTAN stores all text files with Unix-style line
endings (a single linefeed character with no carriage-return
character). To help in this effort, ctanify automatically
replaces non-Unix-style line endings. The preceding merely
message notifies the user that he should not be alarmed to see a
different size for filename in the tarball versus the original
filename on disk (which ctanify never modifies). If there's a
good reason to preserve the original line endings (and there
rarely is), the --no-unixify option can be used to prevent ctanify
from altering any files when storing them in the tarball.
"Excluding filename (use --no-skip to force inclusion)"
ctanify normally ignores files--even when specified explicitly on
the command line--that CTAN prefers not receiving. These include
files whose names start with "." (Unix hidden files), end in "~"
(Emacs automatic backups), or that come from a CVS or .svn
directory (version-control metadata files). If there's a good
reason to submit such files to CTAN (and there rarely is), the
--no-skip option can be used to prevent ctanify from ignoring
them.
"CTAN prefers having only PDF documentation (re: filename)"
Because of the popularity of the PDF format, CTAN wants to have as
much documentation as possible distributed in PDF. The preceding
message asks the user to replace any PostScript or DVI
documentation with PDF if possible. (ctanify will still include
PostScript and DVI documentation in the tarball; the preceding
message is merely a polite request.)
"Not including filename in the TDS tree (unknown extension)"
ctanify places files in the TDS tree based on a table of file
extensions. For example, all .sty files are placed in
tex/latex/package-name. If ctanify does not know where to put a
file it does not put it anywhere. See the last paragraph of
"OPTIONS" for an explanation of how to specify explicitly a file's
target location in the TDS tree. For common file extensions that
happen to be absent from ctanify's table, consider also notifying
ctanify's author at the address shown below under "AUTHOR".
EXAMPLES
The Common Case
Normally, all that's needed is to tell ctanify the name of the .ins
file (or .sty if the package does not use DocStrip) and the prebuilt
documentation, if any:
$ ctanify mypackage.ins mypackage.pdf README
490347 mypackage.tar.gz
1771 mypackage/README
15453 mypackage/mypackage.dtx
1957 mypackage/mypackage.ins
277683 mypackage/mypackage.pdf
246935 mypackage.tds.zip
1771 doc/latex/mypackage/README
277683 doc/latex/mypackage/mypackage.pdf
15453 source/latex/mypackage/mypackage.dtx
1957 source/latex/mypackage/mypackage.ins
1725 tex/latex/mypackage/mypackage.sty
ctanify outputs the size in bytes of the resulting tarball, each file
within it, and each file within the contained ZIP file. In the
preceding example, notice how ctanify automatically performed all of
the following operations:
o including mypackage.dtx (found by parsing mypackage.ins) in both
the mypackage directory and the ZIP file,
o including mypackage.sty (found by parsing mypackage.ins) in the
ZIP file but, because it's a generated file, not in the mypackage
directory, and
o placing all files into appropriate TDS directories (documentation,
source, main package) within the ZIP file.
Consider what it would take to manually produce an equivalent
mypackage.tar.gz file. ctanify is definitely a simpler, quicker
alternative.
Advanced Usage
ctanify assumes that PostScript files are documentation and therefore
stores them under doc/latex/package-name/ in the TDS tree within the
ZIP File. Suppose, however, that a LaTeX package uses a set of
PostScript files to control dvips's output. In this case, ctanify must
be told to include those PostScript files in the package directory, not
the documentation directory.
$ ctanify mypackage.ins "mypackage*.ps=tex/latex/mypackage"
FILES
perl ctanify is written in Perl and needs a Perl installation to run.
tar, gzip
ctanify requires the GNU tar and gzip programs to create a
compressed tarball (.tar.gz).
zip ctanify uses a zip program to archive the TDS tree within the main
tarball.
CAVEATS
ctanify does not invoke tex or latex on its own, e.g., to process a
.ins file. The reason is that ctanify does not know in the general
case how to produce all of a package's generated files. It was deemed
better to do nothing than to risk overwriting existing .sty (or other)
files or to include outdated generated files in the tarball. In short,
before running ctanify you should manually process any .ins files and
otherwise generate any files that should be sent to CTAN.
ctanify has been tested only on Linux. It may work on OS X. I've been
told that it works on Windows when run using Cygwin. Volunteers
willing to help port ctanify to other platforms are extremely welcome.
SEE ALSO
tar(1), zip(1), latex(1), Guidelines for uploading TDS-Packaged
materials to CTAN (<http://www.ctan.org/TDS-guidelines>), A Directory
Structure for TeX Files (<http://tug.org/tds/>),
AUTHOR
Scott Pakin, scott+ctify@pakin.org
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2017 Scott Pakin
This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license
or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this
license is in
<http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt>
and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
2008/05/04 or later.
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