[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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