[fptex] PFE

[Fabrice Popineau]

> Hi all, I've noticed a difference between TeXLive 8 and its
> predecessor.  While installing TeX + friends from TeXLive 7, we had
> the possibility of installing the Programmer's File Editor. As far as
> I can see, that possibility is absent from TeXLive 8, althought there
> is still a ready-to-be-installed version of PFE at

> http://texlive.dante.de/texlive/fptex/

I need to remove those files. They served to prepare TL7.

> Can anyone explain me why is PFE absent from TeXLive 8. Or am I
> missing something?

It is almost impossible to ensure automatic installation and upgrade of
all those third-party programs. So I decided to stick to:
- a bare TeX distribution
- the same bare TeX distribution plus a bundle I called xemtex because
it is made of xemacs + (gsview, not on the cd because of copyright) +
ghostscript + imagemagick + perl.

Fabrice