[tex-live] What is the best readme for the tree structure changes?

[Karl Berry]

    What is the best place to read what has changed in the tree structure 
    (e.g. map file locations and such)?

I wrote a terse summary of what changed as part of TDS 1.1:
  http://tug.org/tds/tds.html#History

As far as TL goes, I'm still working on the doc and trying to put all
the changes together, from pdftex/NEWS and all the other change sources.
(I'm not looking forward to it.  If anyone can help summarize what
changed between TL'03 and TL'04, please write me.)

FWIW, Hans kindly sent me the following info about "compatible settings"
which I plan to put in the doc.  (Hans, I don't what the "textools"
utility is -- one of yours, I assume.  Doesn't seem to be in TL,
although there is a textools.rb?)

k


Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:31:18 +0200
From: Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl>
To: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>, Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel at gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bug in pdftex

Karl Berry wrote:

> Yes.  Can you determine exactly what settings people should put in
> texmf.cnf?

just appendin hgi think that we should append the old locations for enc 
and map files, since it was map files that could not be found; the 
problem is that there is no clue given.

here i have:

ENCFONTS      = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/enc,dvips}//

TEXPSHEADERS  = 
.;$TEXMF/{fonts/{enc,map,type1,truetype},dvips,pdftex,tex}//;$TEXMF/{etex,tex,pdftex,dvips,fonts/type1}//
TEXFONTMAPS   = 
.;$TEXMF/{fonts/map//,fontname};$TEXMF/{pdftex,dvips}/config;$TEXMF/{pdftex,dvips}//
TEXCONFIG         = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map,dvips,pdftex,dvipdfmx,dvipdfm}//

actually, an option is to put a small file somewhere with just those 
settings, since users can put it in their local tree; on th eother hand, 
once they know this, they can repair the tree (textools --fixtexmftree ...)