CTAN update: expl3

[CTAN Announcements]

ooh!  an upload to cambridge!  my daemon said:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: expl3
> Author's name: The LaTeX Team
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/expl3
> Summary description: An Experimental LaTeX3 Programming Convention
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> The expl3 bundle: low-level LaTeX3 coding
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> The files of the expl3 bundle provide a low-level API for TeX
> programmers with special syntax conventions, completely 
> separating it from document level syntax. Hence, the commands 
> provided are not intended for use at the document level nor for
> use in describing design layouts in document class files.
> 
> This API provides the foundation on which the LaTeX3 kernel 
> and other advanced extensions are built. Special care has been
> taken so that they can be used within a LaTeX2e context as 
> regular packages.
> 
> The TeX and eTeX primitives are all given a new name according
> to these conventions. However, in the main direct use of the 
> primitives is not required or encouraged: the expl3 modules
> define an independent low-level LaTeX3 programming language.
> 
> At present, the expl3 modules are designed to be loaded on top 
> of LaTeX2e:
> 
>   \usepackage{expl3}
>   
> In time, a LaTeX3 format will be produced based on this code.
> This allows the code to be used in LaTeX2e packages now while a
> stand-alone LaTeX3 is developed.
> 
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> This release (SVN 1441)
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> 
> This release includes two notable changes from the previous 
> snapshot (SVN 1422). First, the documentation in expl3.pdf has
> been updated to make it clearer that expl3 is ready for general
> use by LaTeX programmers. At the same time, some older parts of
> the documentation were removed.
> 
> The second change is the inclusion of a new module, l3keys. This
> is intended as a high-level programmers interface for creating
> key-value input, such as used in the optional arguments of many
> modern packages. l3keys creates keys using key-value input 
> itself, inspired by the pgfkeys package.
> 
> Two new functions have been added to the clist module:
>  - \clist_set_from_seq:NN
>  - \clist_gset_from_seq:NN
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> The LaTeX3 Project
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> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/expl3.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/expl3

i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
thanks for the upload.

the catalogue link, above, will change minutely overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team