with jim otherwise engaged, the ol' daemon's going to be working hard...
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: bundledoc Author's name: Scott Pakin Location on CTAN: support/bundledoc/ Summary description: Bundle together all the files needed to build a LaTeX document License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
bundledoc is a post-processor for the snapshot package that bundles together all the classes, packages, and files needed to build a given LaTeX document. It reads the .dep file that snapshot produces, finds each of the files mentioned therein, and archives them into a single .tar.gz (or .zip, or whatever) file, suitable for moving across systems, transmitting to a colleague, etc.
As an added bonus, this distribution includes a small script called arlatex. arlatex is a LaTeX-specific archiving program that combines a bunch of files into a single .tex file. When the .tex file is run through latex, all of the original files are recreated and the LaTeX document is built. bundledoc can be easily configured to use arlatex as its archiver in place of tar, zip, etc.
Version 3.0 of bundledoc retains in the generated archive the document's directory structure; provides support for including only document files, not parts of LaTeX; lets the user control at a fine-grained level exactly which files are included or excluded; and improves the handling of filenames containing spaces. The tetex.cfg configuration file has been replaced by a (virtually identical) texlive-unix.cfg file. Thanks to Marius Kleiner and Fabien Vignes-Tourneret for their contributions to this release.
thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository (somewhat more than usual for a package update).
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/bundledoc.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/bundledoc/
the web copy of the catalogue entry will change a fair bit, overnight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team