Re: [NTG-pdftex] 1.40.4 incoming
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Hi Martin,
- 746 PromptFileName
The latest version of 746 (retry), changed by Heiko himself, is the
following.
This problem is related to all Web2C, so I've attached the corresponding
changes for Aleph and Omega.
Please check in these changes also to the head of TeXLive
repository if these are ok.
Best regards,
Akira
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@y
var k:0..buf_size; {index into |buffer|}
@!saved_cur_name:str_number; {to catch empty terminal input}
+ @!saved_cur_ext:str_number; {to catch empty terminal input}
+ @!saved_cur_area:str_number; {to catch empty terminal input}
@z
@x [29.530] l.10252 - prompt_file_name: No default extension is TeX input file.
if e=".tex" then show_context;
@y
if (e=".tex") or (e="") then show_context;
+ print_ln; print("(Retry if file name is empty or CTRL-D to exit.");
+ if (e<>"") then
+ begin
+ print(" Default file extension is `"); print(e); print("'");
+ end;
+ print(")"); print_ln;
@z
@x [29.530] l.10258 - prompt_file_name: prevent empty filenames.
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if cur_ext="" then cur_ext:=e;
@y
saved_cur_name:=cur_name;
clear_terminal; prompt_input(": "); @
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2007/7/9, Akira Kakuto
The latest version of 746 (retry), changed by Heiko himself, is the following.
I've applied it.
This problem is related to all Web2C, so I've attached the corresponding changes for Aleph and Omega.
We don't trace Aleph & Omega in the pdftex-svn, so I'll apply the changes when I push 1.40.4 upstream into TL (if I remember :). Best Martin
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"Martin Schröder"
2007/7/9, Akira Kakuto
: The latest version of 746 (retry), changed by Heiko himself, is the following.
I've applied it.
This problem is related to all Web2C, so I've attached the corresponding changes for Aleph and Omega.
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? 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. Since in both cases the upstream connection appears to have dried up, it would seem reasonable to apply "obvious fixes" to TeXlive?
so I'll apply the changes when I push 1.40.4 upstream into TL (if I remember :).
At some point of time, we might phase out all of that stuff from TeXlive. Probably after a user poll and after LuaTeX has reached some stability. -- David Kastrup
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2007/7/9, David Kastrup
"Martin Schröder"
writes: 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
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"Martin Schröder"
2007/7/9, David Kastrup
: "Martin Schröder"
writes: 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.
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.
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
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Martin Schröder wrote:
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. :-)
Last I heard from Giuseppe, he has no intention of working on Aleph any more. fwiw, the current TeXlive sources are leading (rc4). I have about a dozen or so Aleph bugfixes in luatex that *should* be backported, but I am not in the least interested in doing that, as it seems nobody really cares about Aleph any more anyway. Cheers, Taco
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Taco Hoekwater
Martin Schröder wrote:
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. :-)
Last I heard from Giuseppe, he has no intention of working on Aleph any more. fwiw, the current TeXlive sources are leading (rc4).
I have about a dozen or so Aleph bugfixes in luatex that *should* be backported, but I am not in the least interested in doing that, as it seems nobody really cares about Aleph any more anyway.
If nobody cares about Aleph anymore, we should probably remove it from TeXlive altogether. Same for Omega/Lambda/Lamed/Ctulhu (or what the Aleph version of ConTeXt was called). If someone complains during the TeXlive2008 beta phase, one can still ponder resurrecting them. I am not actually sure that no _users_ care about those, however, even though it is pretty clear that the developers have more or less gone. -- David Kastrup
participants (4)
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Akira Kakuto
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David Kastrup
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Martin Schröder
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Taco Hoekwater