[tex-live] Request for dvisvgm update

Kuznetsov A.N. pm_kan at mail.ru
Thu Mar 6 07:32:05 CET 2014


Hi Karl,

 06.03.2014 2:49 you wrote:
>     Is it possible to update dvisvgm to version 1.5.2 (or at least
>     1.5.1), 
> 
> You'd have to compile from source.  I don't know if compiling from the
> upstream source (e.g., on CTAN) would yield a binary that can just be
> dropped into place.

OK. Thank you for quick response!

>     or 3rd-party binaries are updated only in major releases?
> 
> Right.  (Not just "third" party binaries.  We don't update the tex
> binaries either.)

By the way, small (a bit out of main topic) question about TeX binaries: is
XeTeX maintained at sourceforge.net/p/xetex or in TexLive? When debugging issue
#90 for XeTeX (in TL Master branch) I found that TL's xetex.web and xetex.ch are
slightly differ than the same files from SF's master.

-- 
Best regards,
 Andrey

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