[tex-live] pretest: epstopdf overwrites existing files

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 08:01:46AM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> 
> >   \epstopdfsetup{suffix=-gen}
> > 
> > Ah!
> > 
> >     Please try. Version 1.9 is temporarily available at:
> >       http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~oberdiek/tmp/epstopdf.pdf
> > 
> > Well, I can't do much with a pdf except read it :).  Can you send me the
> > sources (or just upload to CTAN)?  Tomorrow is fine.
> 
> all heiko's pdfs in m/l/c/oberdiek contain .dtx files, and the dtx files
> contain .ins files.  (but i don't imagine the .ins files contain
> anything more than commands.)

The .dtx file contains both, the .ins file and .drv file, but
they is no need to unpack them, because the
.ins file is called by using TeX instead of LaTeX, the
.drv driver is executed in case of LaTeX.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>