Schedule a yearly build at each TeX Live release ?

[cderv]

Can we do that with Appveyor which does the build ?
Is a release full automated now ?

Having this schedule would avoid having to do that manually next year. Release seem to be always 1st april of each year.

Extend #12

[cderv]

Not possible. Too bad.

From rstudio/tinytex#293 (comment)

Yes, this happens yearly, but the date may not be the same every year.

[yihui]

It should be possible to automatically detect it from their website https://tug.org/texlive/, e.g., we can catch the sentence like

It was released on 1 April 2021

If the year has changed, we need to rebuild TinyTeX in the yihui/tinytex repo, and then make a new release here in this repo. The only problem is that we need to fix a CTAN mirror in this case. I need to think more about it.

[cderv]

Oh true. This is a much more complex workflow but possible indeed ! 👍

[yihui]

Since this problem occurs every year, I have hoped to completely solve it for a long time. The above idea was from perhaps two years ago :)

Unfortunately I may not have enough time to test the potential fix---once most CTAN mirrors have the newer version of TeX Live, it won't be straightforward to test it. Typically this breakage only last for a day or two. I'll see if I can make it this time.

[cderv]

Yeah that is not easy in such short time.
We could make our own copy of a non updated mirror yet and freeze it so that we have more time for fix it.
That could work, right ?

You may have tried it yet before though.