[tex-live] filename clash [case] in tex4ht
Eitan Gurari
gurari at cse.ohio-state.edu
Tue Jan 9 11:43:21 CET 2007
Jonathan,
I believe the file
texmf-dist/tex/generic/tex4ht/Arabicore.4ht
can be removed, as it should by now affect only users of old
versions of arabi.
Youssef,
Any comments?
-eitan
Jonathan Kew writes:
> The new version of tex4ht in TeX Live (checked in as rev. 3262)
> contains both
>
> texmf-dist/tex/generic/tex4ht/Arabicore.4ht
> texmf-dist/tex/generic/tex4ht/arabicore.4ht
>
> The same case difference occurs in the \Hinput{...} line within the
> files; otherwise, they are identical.
>
> Is there a need for these two files to exist, or is it an accident?
> The distinction will be lost on case-insensitive file systems, so it
> would be unwise for anything to depend on it.
>
> In the case of the TeX Live repository, this situation creates
> Subversion checkout difficulties when using a working copy on a case-
> insensitive volume. Therefore, I'd like to delete one of the pair,
> unless this will break something else.
>
> JK
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