[tlbuild] powerpc-linux

[Jonathan Kew]

On 6 Jun 2008, at 11:03 am, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>> Why do these things always come up right before a big release?
>
> because those who publish books are wondering "is it worth  
> upgrading to this big release?" and so we tentatively tested the  
> intermediate releases but were too lazy to do it early enough,  
> sorry :)

No need to apologize! I really appreciate hearing of problems -- the  
sooner the better, of course, but some things are obscure enough that  
they can go un-noticed for quite a while. None of us have the  
resources to test everything exhaustively, I fear.

It is, of course, far preferable to hear of bugs *before* the TL  
release rather than immediately *after* the DVDs have been burned!

> I suspect our 3-volume critical edition of Classical Armenian Bible  
> will probably be the first major publication that used the very  
> very latest XeTeX and actually made use of its many "bells and  
> whistles" (for which there is an appropriate acknowledgement line  
> in the copyright page, of course; together with \XeLaTeX logo and  
> the tux penguin from Libertine OpenType font :)

It's great to hear how people are making use of the tools we're  
building -- makes it all worthwhile! :)

JK