[fptex] 0.7 released

[Bob Howlett]

Is this going to be available from ctan?

Bob Howlett

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Fabrice Popineau wrote:
> Now that the TeXLive 2003 is over, I have packaged fptex-0.7 and it is
> avalaible from ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/current/ .
> 
> It will probably be the last version of fptex per-se : TeXLive is
> available as a 'live' version but also as an 'inst' version which holds
> the same .zip files as fptex does.
> 
> The future will be to switch the TeXLive installer to an MSI based installer
> (Microsoft dedicated installer system). This may result in a fptex-0.7.1
> version.
> 
> The next thing that will come out is xemtex-0.1, a smaller TeX
> distribution, with a set of preconfigured tools for a complete system
> based on TeX and XEmacs.
> 
> Stay tuned on http://www.fptex.org/ for further information. The Web
> pages (fixed, thanks for the reports) will be updated beginning of next week.
> 
> The 0.7 announce will be forwarded to newsgroups once I will get
> positive reports from the fptex list members. The best procedure to
> upgrade to 0.7 is to backup your texmf-local tree, remove your existing
> fptex version using the uninstall procedure, and install 0.7.
>