pdfTeX upheavals, texlive sources
Robin Fairbairns
Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri May 31 20:09:53 CEST 2002
following a lot of confusion about the state of pdftex on ctan, most
of it arising from problems in areas beyond the control of the ctan
team, it has been decided that ctan will no longer hold a "pdftex"
directory on the main tree. (the pre-existing pdftex directory has
been moved to obsolete/systems/pdftex.)
the sources of pdftex are available in a number of alternative places:
as a pdftex source archive:
systems/web2c -- which has been brought up to date after a long hiatus
as part of a complete distribution source archive:
systems/texlive/Source - a new directory containing compressed
archives of the latest state of the texlive
discs; this is a *new* directory
systems/unix/teTeX-beta - the latest teTeX snapshot (note, at the time
this beta is finally "released", the source
will become systems/unix/teTeX)
while this means that there's no "headline" directory containing
pdftex, the ctan team consider that the situation that we now have
consistent, maintained, copies of the source more satisfactory.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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