[tex-live] cleaning up of tree

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Feb 9 15:40:09 CET 2004


At 14:29 09/02/2004, George N. White III wrote:

>An edge case is where site policy forces users to install things under a
>path that contains names with embedded spaces and glyphs not found in
>ASCII.  If the TeX documentation gives a good rationale for why such paths
>won't work, it would make it easier to win arguments over whether
>exceptions can be made for TeX.

does this mean that we can have something

   texmf-someplatform/whatevercomesnext

for those special cases where platforms demand a filename treatment o 
location too different from what we consider 'nice' and general?

Hans



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