MetaPost 0.901 announcement

[CTAN Announcements]

Taco Hoekwater writes:

> The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost:
> 
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> MetaPost 0.901
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> 
> The sources, as well as binary packages for both fptex and miktex
> installations can be downloaded immediately from
> 
>    http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/
> 
> * The source package should compile normally on all systems that are
>    capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution.
> 
> * The web2c-win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar
>    web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003.
> 
> * The miktex package contains macros and binaries for miktex 2.4,
>    kindly provided by Christian Schenk himself.
> 
> Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may
> have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of
> this message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests.
> 
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> Changes in version 0.901:
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> *  A corrected bugfix for the degerate path bug (the old fix
>     made metapost fail the trap test)
> *  Included mpost.mp for mem generation
> *  Updated trap test
> *  The mpost executable is now version 0.901
> 
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> Legal notice / license / bug reports
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> MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby
> at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont.  The MetaPost home page
> is http://tug.org/metapost.
> 
> MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain.
> 
> The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Sarovar,
> http://www.sarovar.org/projects/metapost; please report bugs and
> request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you
> can reach us through the <metapost at tug.org> mailing list as well.
> (Please do not send bug reports or feature requests directly to
> Dr. Hobby any more)
> 
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 11, 2005

i've installed this new release on the cambridge ctan, in directory
graphics/metapost -- it will make its way out to the rest of the world
in due course.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team