etex, pdftex, omega

[Philip Taylor (RHBNC)]

Joachim --

>> more than a month since the exchange of mails concerning the inclusion
>> of comments about e-TeX in TDS, and pushing its version number to 1.0.

>> Karl, what's the current state?

Many thanks for pushing this one along.

>> In case it matters, my general understanding: As defined in TDS, each
>> program gets a subdirectory below texmf/ for its files. If the author
>> wishes, we can add a description of the structure below that subtree.
>> That description might be by analogy, i.e., it might read ``the same
>> structure as in texmf/tex/.'' Of course, the program in question is
>> always free to specify that it not only reads files from its specific
>> subtree, but files from other programs as well. (That's the reason why
>> it's very sensible to define substructures of programs.)
>> 
>> So e-TeX would be handled by:
>> 
>>  -- Introducing a new directory texmf/etex/.
>>  -- Telling that below this directory the same structural conventions
>>     as below texmf/tex/ is used.
>>  -- Telling that only e-TeX-specific files are placed there, general
>>     TeX files still belong in texmf/tex/.
>>  -- Adding a note that e-TeX is expected to search files both in its
>>     own directory tree and in texmf/tex/.

Just one correction: e-TeX should search its own directory tree before
the general one.

>> And than we would be ready to slap 1.0 on the cover?!
>> I'd say, go for it!

Great!

* Phil.