[tex-live] TL13 status

[David Carlisle]

On 9 April 2013 21:17, Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

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>
> David Carlisle wrote:
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> Point taken, but I am not suggesting that they should /cease/
> development; rather, that in parallel with development (which
> can go to CTAN as and when), they should, for the period leading
> up to a DVD burn, focus on fixing any reported bugs that would
> require the DVD to need a network update shortly after installation.
> ponents, it is by no means obvious that the benefits are
> as clear for the end user.
>

Why TL why not miktex? Certainly as a package author I wouldn't take such a
suggestion seriously. I happen to know that TL is finalising TL2013 but for
example just yesterday something came up on tex.stackexchange that could
perhaps be a longtable bug (if so it's probably 25 years old :-) If I can
find time to remember how the heck that code works I'll fix it when I find
time. It might just scrape in to TL2013 or (more likely) it might just miss
or I might not be able to fix it anytime soon and it'll go in TL2014 or it
might be user error and not a bug in my code at all, the TL release
schedule just needs to roll on. Package authors can not synchronise with it
and it can not wait for every package.

David
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