Luis Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Esser escribió: > >> I am sorry to announce some bad news about teTeX: there won't be a >> next release. To be more precise: there won't be a next release >> done by me. >> > Just to say a big thank you Thomas for your work and time all these > years. I hope that teTeX will find mantainers, that will keep your > name and recognition alive.
Actually, I'd prefer it if teTeX was succeeded by TeXlive in mind share. There is not much to be gained by maintaining separate full distributions, and I'd guess that this is part of the motivation of Thomas to not continue. How and to what degree MikTeX's package system will have an influence remains to be seen. I certainly would want to see other TeX engines on Windows gaining relevance. Customers of mine use MikTeX executables, and they just don't cut it, even after regenerating formats. Program abortions, random behavior (stuff like \ifnum\lastnodetype<13 evaluating to true under certain circumstances when \lastnotetype is 13, I am not kidding you), partly depending on whether the files are DOS or Unix-ended... And these problems are reproducible (given identical input) on several computers and there is basically no developer feedback. I want to have executables with the same quality as teTeX on all platforms, and it looks like TeXlive would be the most feasible way for that. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum