[tex-live] e-TeX schedule

[Gerben Wierda]

> Olaf Weber writes:
>
>> e-TeX-wise, we should have a stable intermediate state early this
>> week.
>
> e-TeX-wise that was the case.  I did a few Cygwin-related checkins
> today, a number of checkins that eliminated gratuitous differences
> between my sources and TeX-live, and checked in Taco Hoekwater's
> changes to prevent empty filenames from being given when TeX prompts
> for a filename.
>
> That last change _might_ come as a bit of a surprise.
>
>> In the mean time, is there anything that _has_ to go in?
>
> At this point I've run out of stuff that I want to be in...please
> start testing.  :-)

I understand from another discussion that kpathsea is getting download
capabilities. I do not recall reading discussions on that on this list.
Has it been discussed/described on another list so that I can have a look?

The reason is that the Mac TeX working group is talking with Apple about a
small chance of including TeX by default on the next Mac OS release, but
we would have to investigate any instrument that keeps the initial
distribution small. As someone who has implemented download strategies
(and knows some of the caveats) over the last years, I might be able to
contribute, maybe.

Thanks,

Gerben