On 8/19/07, Martin Schröder wrote:

2007/8/19, Philip TAYLOR :

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Martin, it was your "rant" [1] (Hans's terminilogy) that triggered this debate; you are the last person to be in a position to

That wasn't a rant (and it was with tongue in cheek), that was a try to state a fact that David didn't make clear: That his problems (and his fix) where on Windows. This could all have been over sooner if David had given more information up front.

If you want to continue this discussion, fine; but please leave ntg-pdftex out of this.

What would be useful is discussion of particular problems that need to be addressed, with the objective of 1) educating those of us with experience slanted to one platform and 2) coming up with solutions. There is no shortage of problems: 1) every "#Ifdef PLATFORM" in the sources. In some cases "PLATFORM" seems to have been abused to mean "MS_Visual_C" and may not be appropriate when using a cross-compiler. In others it may have been used where an autoconf #defined value would be better. 2) every teTeX shell script -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia