Re: [NTG-pdftex] Releasing 1.10a

Fabrice Popineau writes:

* Olaf Weber writes:

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- MS Windows does not work.

I have the patch for kpathsea/tex-make.c, but I still have many things quite different from the current release and that don't plug easily in it. I'll try to submit the small patch this evening or tomorrow, but I would say that basically, you shouldn't wait too much on windows : as soon as 7.4.1 is official, I'll upload new win32 binaries, and my sources won't be exactly the same. I don't know how to deal with it, except by stepping back on several issues.

That's a go-ahead then. A couple of changes you proposed didn't make it in due to a lack of time on my side. Others because at present I haven't worked out how to integrate them into the unix side. Note the change in 3.4.0 w.r.t the handling of the contents of ls-R files -- as I recall our discussions earlier, on windows a comparatively large amount of time was spent in the hashing function, and this should bring the time needed to read an ls-R down. Right now I've got a couple of things in the pipeline, including reworking parts of kpathsea (which may allow me to meet you on these "issues", but which will also make integration "interesting") and reworking the way the build system works (which also may have implications.) Finally, I was wondering what's up with those .rc files that I find all over the place in the texlive source tree. They seem to contain version and banner info for windows, but fair number of them appears to be outdated.

Fabrice

-- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)