[yandytex] Using YandY

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

I am deeply interest in the question of  how differently software 
evolves in a closed (commercial) vs. the open-source setting, and I am 
looking for the day I can lay my hands on that code to compare it.

Do you know what will be the form that the code will be made available ? 
TeX Archive ? SourceForge ?

I would like to thank you for taking care of all this work and hope you 
will stick around when we find out that we are missing this or that file!

Paulo Ney


Karl Berry wrote:
>     Could you explain better what exactly has "Blenda" donated to TUG ?
>
> Blenda Horn was one of the founders of Y&Y.
> She ended up with all the company's assets after its dissolution.
>
> She donated the actual development and distribution computers.  As such,
> they contain a lot of business contracts, letters, and so on, not
> related to anything technical.  They also contain many copies of the
> Lucida and MathTime fonts.  They also contain a lot of Microsoft
> development libraries, etc.  Everything like that has to be excised
> before making it public.
>
> The source code for the actual Y&Y TeX system and the Y&Y-developed
> fonts (such as European Modern) are the main things which will be made
> publicly available.  (Volunteers will have to come forward to compile
> new binaries when the time comes; I can't do that.)  There are a number
> of other utilities, random documentation, etc., as well.
>
> I cannot be more precise right now -- I don't know myself exactly what
> is there.  There are many years of files accreted on the systems (many
> of them being slightly different versions of each other), and it's a
> time-consuming process to review them.
>
> best,
> Karl
>