[tex-live] fmtutil.cnf / TL2007
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Jan 9 03:09:32 CET 2007
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:
> not call this one TL2007 I propose "2006-07" (Hans and Jerzy
> concurred already in individual mail). The problem with just
> "2007" is that it will trouble all the user group members who
> don't get their "2006" software. And, as Staszek pointed out, 98%
> of the work was done in 2006.
I assume that nobody cares about TeXLive-2006 when TeXLive-2007 is
available.
> Gerben, I agree it's a pain not to just have YYYY, but the above
> seems like the clearest identification to me, given the state
> we're in.
Why it is a pain? A name is just a name. A name is always
arbitrary. Let's chose a name which sounds beautiful.
"TeXLive-2006" looks like old crap, "TeXLive-2006-07" looks like a
winter release and people might expect a new release in summer.
I still don't know why switching to TL-2007 is bad.
> - I don't like version numbers, because in practice, people would
> very often give the wrong number, when it increments by one every
> year. This caused unnecessary confusion.
Sorry, I don't understand. What is the difference between "2006" and
"10" in this context?
> No other package I can think of increments a major version number
> yearly.
Of course, because no package has <year> in it's version string. For
a good reason, I guess.
> I don't like code names. They are meaningless, and one cannot be
> compared to another.
I dislike them too. If someone needs them I don't see any problems.
TeXLive is DFSG free and anybody can derive his own distribution from
TeXLive.
Regards,
Reinhard
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