[tex-live] a big thank you, a request, a report, and two hints

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Oct 23 01:14:34 CEST 2008


Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) writes:

 > I wonder if there would be any merit in using
 > VMS-style error messages, such as :
 > 
 > 	%TLMGR-F-NOSUCHPKG, No such package found at requested location
 > 
 > where the part following the ", " would be taken from
 > a default indexed file (using "NOSUCHPKG" as key), but
 > with the ability to take an alternative text from
 > a user-defined file, such that each user could customise
 > the error messages to his/her taste if he/she so wishes ...

Hi Phil,
I'm pretty sure that it blows up the code while almost nobody makes
use of it.  I also think that it is highly undesirable to allow people
to post customized error messages to mailing lists.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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