[tex-live] Re: Re: Re: Aleph versioning
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Sep 3 13:05:13 CEST 2004
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>To solve the (in)compatibilities between Omega and e-TeX in the
>versioning system, Aleph comes with a whole BUNCH of version
>primitives:
>
>\OmegaVersion returns the string 1.15
>\AlephVersion returns the string 0-rc3
>
>
so we also need \eTeXVersion -> string 2.2
>\eTeXversion returns the *number* 2
>\Omegaversion returns the *number* 1
>\Alephversion returns the *number* 0
>
>\eTeXminorversion returns the *number* 1
>\Omegaminorversion returns the *number* 15
>\Alephminorversion returns the *number* 0
>
>\eTeXrevision returns the string .1
>\Omegarevision returns the string .15
>\Alephrevision returns the string rc3
>
>
maybe the last one can better be .3
>Note that this doesn't break backwards compatibility with any
>of Omega or e-TeX, so we may want to ask Peter to add
>eTeXminorversion to eTeX?
>
>IIRC, it is also consistent with version numbers in pdf-TeX.
>
>
Hans
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