next version

[Prof Brian Ripley]

> To: fptex@tug.org
> Subject: next version
> From: Fabrice POPINEAU <popineau@ese-metz.fr>
> Date: 04 Feb 1999 15:21:39 +0100
> 
> 
> I'm slowly cleaning up a new version based on the upcoming
> web2c-7.3beta. Many new things to automagically build the tarball.
> However it takes some more time than expected.
> 
> What should be the status of those directories :
> c:\TeX\man        nroff man pages
> c:\TeX\info	  info documentation
> c:\TeX\lib	  stubs for dlls
> c:\TeX\include    include files for dlls
> 
> I wonder if these are needed by anyone (or very few people). I'm not
> found of using man/info under the win32 environment, even if possible
> (emacs is great for those things). Given the fact that those files
> compile in ps/pdf/html, maybe we can remove them ? About the
> lib/include files, unless someone wants to use the dlls in their own
> code, they are useless.

I prefer to read the man pages (where not grossly out of date) in the
original format on-screen (using groff/less), rather than as
ps/pdf/html (launching any of those viewers is slow when one already
has several processes in memory, and they are not particularly readable
on a small laptop screen).  Also, I am more used to reading info in
Emacs than any other way.  So please make them available: I would be
happy if like the Cygwin distribution they were a separate zip file.

I have no use for the include files/dlls, and if I did I would compile
them from the sources under my own compiler versions.


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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