Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
as completely separate systems with no overlap or clashes. There is still some overlap now (which gives the illusion of symbiosis) but in my view
the only overlap is in using some fonts and even that will go away as soon as luatex is out (and we can use gyre fonts and don't need any tfm files etc any more); actually, i think that the landscape will change drastically when luatex is used to its full power; although most of the code i write for that purpose is generic, i have no plans to call it generic (or put it under a generic tree) ... live is too short
the sooner ConTeXt becomes its own the better. There will always be cooperation at the engine level but lets sharply distinguish the TeX engine, LaTeX, and ConTeXt. There should be eg. an agnostic common TeX engine, a LaTeXLive, and a ConTeXtLive.
hm, it's not that bad, and in principle tds permits sepeartions, but in practice granularity is added when it's too late (i.e. we can only break downward compatibility then, e.g. scripts, map, enc, mp etc paths all started out pretty flat and in less structured places);
I don't want to see Hans and Taco wasting time with a non-working symbiosis. We have too many things that need to get done.
well, with luatex we aim at a texmf-context.zip file and since we have completely independent file io handling, i don't expect that many problems; Hans