[tex-live] Re: tex *live* packages [was: .. acronym package missing
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Itay Furman
itayf at fhcrc.org
Mon Feb 16 07:42:13 CET 2004
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Itay Furman wrote:
>
> >
> >>. my idea is to take
> >>the current Perl script and simplify it considerably by
> >>taking out all the special cases. This information would be
> >>stored in TPM2 .xml files. When the script runs on package
> >>X, it reads X.xml, which tells it the parameters for the job
> >>(is it a latex package, a font package, etc; what is the
> >>doc file; which .ins file to run).
> >>
> >I would like to try working on that.
> >If this is OK with you, then let me know how we proceed.
> >
> >
...
> reiterate 15 times in increasing frustration until it works. Ask
> me why when it fails :-}
>
> OK, now you are at the same position as me; and you
I guess it will take more than 15 iteration ...
> can start taking apart ctan2tds.pl and try to make
> it read XML config files instead of all its hard-wired specialcase
> tables.
>
> does this make sense?
>
So far yes. Let's what happens when I open Pandora's Box ... :-)
Itay
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