[tex-live] fmtutil.cnf / TL2007

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Jan 8 14:25:29 CET 2007


Gerben Wierda wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:49 , Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>>> BTW, given that we will not see another TL this year (I suspect), 
>>>> why not call this one TL2007 and plan TL2008 for January 2008? 
>>>> TL2009 in January 2009, etc. That way, you will never move accross 
>>>> a year boundary, not even when you lose a few monts because of 
>>>> (un)expected delays.
>>>
>>> Answering  myself: let's stay for this one with TL2006 but skip 
>>> TL2007 and plan TL2008 for January 2008.
>> just calling it 2006/2007 would be ok; thereis no real reason for a 
>> once per year schedule indeed
>
> For me, either 2006 (preferred) or 2007. The names currently enable 
> use as in $tlyear > $tlyear in perl scripts etc, and my build 
> procedures have files like fmtutil.cnf.$tlyear. So if we keep to the 
> strict year naming it would really benefit me.
that number is not the same as on the cover of the dvd set, so you can use 2006 for that and we can talk about it as being tex collection 2006/2007 

Hans 

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