Re: [NTG-pdftex] 1.40.4 incoming

2007/7/9, David Kastrup :

"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. :-)

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. Omega2 will run on Hurd. :-)

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? Best Martin