[tex-live] aleph for TL

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Thomas Esser wrote:

> > Sorry ? And what if these files can't be input by TeX (especially for
> > Aleph files!).
> 
> It the files are tex-syntax, they should go to texmf/tex, no matter which
> engine it is. We already have e.g. etex.src in texmf/tex even tough
> TeX cannot make any use of it. There was a lengthy discussion about
> this in some list (texlive or TDS, I don't remember). But, in the end,
> there was a common agreement that it is better to stop using the engine
> stecific directories.
> 
> Karl, I am sure that you can pass a reference to Fabrice...

I also hope that was agreed and, in fact, already adopted in TL depot.
Also texmf.cnf entries follows that.
The whole discussion started from
http://tug.org/mail-archives/twg-tds/2003-August/000839.html

Unfortunately I cannot find modified draft for the TDS documentation.
We need it urgently anyway _before_ teTeX and TL releases, just for
explaining the users what was changed and why.
The same thing with texmf/scripts/ issues, etc.:
http://tug.org/mail-archives/twg-tds/2004-February/000850.html
 
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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl