[tex-live] query about archives

[Dr. Clea F. Rees]

Thanks!

On 07/09/08, you seem to have written:

>    1) presence on CTAN
>    2) free licence
>    3) non-obsolete
>    4) non-experimental or experimental with author's approval
>
> Right.
>
> The only other important criteria that come to mind are:
>    5) it doesn't cause significant conflicts.
>
> In other words, if J. Random Package happens to contain a file named, say,
> "plain.tex", we aren't going to install it :).  We try to work with the
> author to resolve conflicts.  Conflicts can happen in other ways too,
> but are surprisingly rare.
>
> Much more common is:
>    6) we notice it.
>
> In other words, I'm sure there are many things on CTAN which meet 1-4
> and are not in TL simply because Sebastian did not notice them to
> incorporate them.  Post-Sebastian, we have never even managed to look at
> everything *in TL*, let alone everything on CTAN.
>
> So if there are things on CTAN which meet 1-5 and aren't in TL, report
> it here.
>
>    http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/timetable/timetable.tex
>
> That failed criteria #6 :).  I'll install it at some point.  Looks
> rather nice, actually.
>
>    I also wondered which definition of 'free' TL works with.
>
> Short answer: the FSF's.
> Long answer: see http://tug.org/texlive/copying.html and its links.
>
> karl
>

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Dr. Clea F. Rees

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