Re: [NTG-pdftex] 1.40.4 incoming

"Martin Schröder" writes:

2007/7/9, David Kastrup :

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"Martin Schröder" writes:

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We don't trace Aleph & Omega in the pdftex-svn,

Does anybody actually trace them? Would the following appear accurate?

a) Aleph can be considered abandoned as long as nobody hears of Giuseppe. Is there a publicly accessible SCM, or is the last tarball all that is there?

Not that I know of. Giuseppe is probably using luaTeX. :-)

Not sure about that. I seem to remember that Giuseppe was not actually using Aleph, either. He just provided it. I might be mistaken about that, however.

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b) Omega, at the very least in versions likely to appear in TeXlive, is not maintained anymore either. There is presumably upstream development in Brest, but "upstream" might be somewhat of a misnomer as the pipes appear clogged, and Omega2-to-be would not appear to be in a state fit for general consumption.

Yes. No bugfixes (these were in aleph and are now probably in luaTeX), and Yannis is using luaTeX.

Hm. What will happen with Gábor Bella's work then?

Omega2 will run on Hurd. :-)

URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install I doubt that Omega2 is in the package list yet.

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Since in both cases the upstream connection appears to have dried up, it would seem reasonable to apply "obvious fixes" to TeXlive?

Yes. Do you want to maintain them?

I am afraid that I already do a bad enough job maintaining my existing projects. -- David Kastrup