[tex-live] Re: schedule for tl2004

[Olaf Weber]

Olaf Weber writes:

> At present I've done:

> - changes in the xord/xchr/xprn handling (decribed in greater detail
>   on tex-live)
> - -8bit option
> - pushing $engine in the environment
> - using .fmt for all TeX-family engines
> - -halt-on-error option
> - spaces in filenames, along the pattern provided by MikTeX,
>   that is you use quotes like this:
>       \input "filename with spaces"
> - like MikTeX (again) if a filename with spaces is printed, quotes are
>   added
> - installation (by my Makefile :) of the dumps in subdirectories of
>   web2c

> This should take care of most of the differences with the windows code
> base.  The changes touch omega and aleph as well.

> To do

> - some of the stuff above is not yet documented.
> - Makefile glitches.

> The documentation may end up being postponed a bit.

Except for the manual pages and some stuff in mpware my sources and
TeX-live are now in sync.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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