2014-12-18 13:55 GMT+01:00 Dominik Wujastyk <wujas...@gmail.com>: > > Dear all, > > As a matter of interest, what is broken in the SVN version of the Gnu > FreeFonts that is not broken in the current 2012 release version? I mean, > what sorts of difficulties should users be looking out for if they use the > SVN release? > My tests cover only Devanagari, Steve should explain the status of other blocks. However, after April 7, 2013 Steve did some change and Devanagari was broken. I reported the problem and Steve fixed it very quickly. This may happen any time in the future. Imagine that a bug is spotted in some package and a user runs "tlmgr update -all". At that time a new revision of FreeFont is on subversion and ported to the TL repository and hence updated together with the packages. However, the revision is broken. It may take a few days before a fixed version goes to the repository and propagates to all mirrors. There is always such a risk. I would never suggest distribution of the HEAD of the trunk. Distribution of a tag is less risky but the users should always expect problems. As I have already written, developers sometimes commit broken revisions on purpose. If you decide to redistribute any SW from a svn repository, which is legal according to GPL, you must warn the users that it is not well tested.
> Best, > Dominik > > Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex