This is the main part of the kerTeX distribution, the bulk of what will be installed on the Target (hence the 'T'). It uses kertex_M ('M' for Matrix) in order to convert WEB to C for compilation. Both use risk_comp as compilation and installation framework.
kerTeX is the TeX kernel system: the main part upon which everything else relies.
kerTeX relies only on a libc and, for administration of extensions (packages), and slightly for MetaPost utilities, on a reduced subset of POSIX.2 utilities that are indeed available for any OS (MS Windows included via MSYS). And it will stay this way.
The installation includes all the D.E. Knuth's work and additions (John Hobby's MetaPost, e-TeX, Oren Patashnik's BibTeX, D.E. Knuth and Sylvio Levi CWEB, Tomas Rokicki's dvips) as well a Prote, T. Laronde extension to TeX and e-TeX that is the main engine, compatible with TeX, compatible with e-TeX and providing the supplementary primitives needed by LaTeX post 2e.
To clarify what is, here, added and what is taken from external sources, the external sources are put aside and can be retrieved in a bundle provided by the kerTeX web site (see the downloads section on the site whose address is given below).
So the present code is not enough, by itself, to obtain the system: it reaches ``out'' supplementary code.
But see COPYRIGHTS for a description of who is the author of what and what responsability an author has in the present work. And see the README or LISEZ.MOI---that can be found for download on the website--- for further explanations.