CTAN

ctan.org · Storage · 2 records · JSON

CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) Storagefails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gateddisagrees
ctan Storagefails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardRwrite-gateddisagrees

ctan.org · registry · storage/ctan · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/ctan says institution, storage/ctan-2 says email

Free tier	No numeric quota published, but upload is a manual web form reviewed by the CTAN team, with extensive packaging rules (TDS layout, no .git, no editor backups, symlinks preferred over copies). There is no API and no programmatic publish path. A real package (beamer.zip) is 3,298,392 bytes. unit mixed; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	per-object-cap: none published; upload is a browser form. retention: indefinite ('CTAN keeps all versions')
Egress	Free, heavily mirrored (mirror.ctan.org redirects to a national mirror, e.g. mirrors.ustc.edu.cn). No metering.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: itor backups, symlinks preferred over copies). There is no API and no programmatic publish path. A real package (beamer.zip) is 3,298,392 bytes. Web-form-only write path with edit
Limits	write-gated reviewed by the CTAN team, with extensive packaging rules (TDS layout, no source write-gated review source per-object-cap: none published; upload is a browser form. retention: indefinite ('CTAN keeps all versions'). request-rate: N/A, human review.
Binding	write-gated the write is a queue with a person or a rule in it, so the upload rate is set by somebody else
Interface	rclone wrapper-only
Tooling	Manual upload form + email-based review. `tlmgr` for consumption. No upload API, no rclone.
Composes with	unlimited packages x unlimited versions, but every one is human-reviewed and must be TeX-archive-shaped. Not multiplicable in any meaningful automated way.
Reliability	Web-form-only write path with editorial review - fails the programmatic-access filter regardless of size. Read path is excellent (global mirrors, 200 on beamer.zip).
Notes	No numeric quota published, but upload is a manual web form reviewed by the CTAN team, with extensive packaging rules (TDS layout, no .git, no editor backups, symlinks preferred over copies). There is no API and no programmatic publish path. A real package (beamer.zip) is 3,298,392 bytes.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer.zip	probe: GET with -L -> 200, 3,298,392 bytes, final URL mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CTAN/...
2026-10-21	www.ctan.org/upload	upload form, no API
2026-10-21	www.ctan.org/file/help/ctan/CTAN-upload-addendum	'Never try to upload (or re-upload) by email, always use the upload form'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "write-gated",
  "why": "No numeric quota published, but upload is a *manual web form* reviewed by the CTAN team, with extensive packaging rules (TDS layout, no .git, no editor backups, symlinks preferred over copies). There is no API and no programmatic publish path. A real package (beamer.zip) is 3,298,392 bytes.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (5)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

ctan Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?Rdisagrees

www.ctan.org/upload · rejected-provider · storage/ctan-2 · JSON · compare

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: storage/ctan says institution, storage/ctan-2 says email

Free tier	Web-form upload with manual editorial review; no API, no programmatic path regardless of size. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	Web-form upload with manual editorial review; no API, no programmatic path regardless of size.
Notes	Web-form upload with manual editorial review; no API, no programmatic path regardless of size.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.ctan.org/upload	Web-form upload with manual editorial review no API, no programmatic path regardless of size.

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "write-gated",
  "why": "Web-form upload with manual editorial review; no API, no programmatic path regardless of size.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded