ePiX package missing

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 14:40:34 CEST 2020


Hi,

the page says that it exists in Linux distros and my Fedora really
finds the package.

st 10. 6. 2020 v 14:30 odesílatel Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> napsal:
>
> Hello,
>
> Not that I volunteer, but on
>
> https://mathcs.holycross.edu/~ahwang/current/ePiX.html
>
> there is a much more recent version (march 2020), with an autoconf based
> build system that looks good and recent enough.  I have no idea if it is
> fully relocatable or not, and I do not remember what it entails.
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:07:35PM +0200, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> > Le 10/06/20 à 20h54, Norbert Preining a écrit :
> >
> > > Hi Denis,
> >
> > Hi Norbert,
> >
Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

> > >>   │ https://www.ctan.org/pkg/epix
> > >
> > > You are welcome to:
> > > - make a autoconf build system for it
> > > - integrate it into the TeX Live build system
> > > - make sure that the resulting binaries are relocatable (don't expect a
> > >   fixed path defined during compile time)
> >
> > Ouch! I see...
> >
> > > Then epix might end up in TL. But none of us has any intention to do
> > > this work for such an old package we don't use.
> >
> > Okay, okay... Let say I didn't say nothing :)
> >
> > Best.
> > --
> > Denis
> >



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