[tex-live] talk package

Martin Wiebusch mwiebusch at physik.rwth-aachen.de
Mon Jun 1 20:21:21 CEST 2009


On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 21:53 -0500, Dan Luecking wrote:
> On May 31, 2009, you (mwiebusch at physik.rwth-aachen.de) wrote
> 
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have noticed (and feel honored) that you have included my "talk"
> >package 
> >(<http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2009-May/http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk>http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk) 
> >in
> >TeXLive.
> >
> >I would like to point out that talk v. 1.0.2, which you currently
> >include, does not work with pgf 1.7. It was only tested with 0.xx
> >versions of pgf and the 1.xx versions are not backward compatible.
> >
> >On the other hand, the current version 1.1 of talk works fine with pgf
> >v. 1.7, even though I state in the README that pgf 1.18 is required. Pgf
> >1.18 was simply the recent CTAN version in 2006 (!), when I wrote talk
> >1.1, and I thought it would get included in distributions sooner. (I
> >assume you have your reasons, though.)
> 
> Are you looking at TeX Live 2008 or 2007? Because TeX-Live 2009
> contains version 1.1. TeX Live takes its files from CTAN and so
> would surely have any version placed there before mid 2008.

Ooops! To be honest, I was looking at the version included in my Fedora
distro, which turns out to be 2007. Looks like I was barking at the
wrong tree then. Sorry.





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