[tex-live] Bug in updmap?!

[Olaf Weber]

Karl Berry writes:

>     Therefore, i think that the BEST solution to this problem is
>     for you to REPLACE syntax "--enable Map=foo.map" in your ported updmap

> AFAIK, this would mean completely rewriting argument parsing, because
> getopt could not be used.  Fabrice has already said he's not going to do
> that.  (Doesn't sound like a good idea to me, either.)

IIRC this can be done in the presence of getopt, provided it is the
GNU implementation from kpathsea: you bump optind yourself once for
each additional argument you consume.

>     unix's updmap is not going to add support for "--enable Map=foo.map".

> I don't see the problem with supporting --enable maptype=mapfile in Unix.
> That can be supported alongside --enable maptype mapfile, it's easily
> distinguishable.

For mutual interoperability that would be nice to have.

> Gerben, the existing syntax will continue to be supported either way.
> So I don't see how this would affect you?

-- 
Olaf Weber

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