[tex-live] preliminary test image for TeX Live 2005

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Fri Sep 9 21:01:13 CEST 2005


Vladimir Volovich wrote:
> "TH" == Taco Hoekwater writes:
> 
>  TH> I may be mistaken completely, but I got the impression that Adobe
>  TH> Reader on the Mac was a native aqua (non-X11) application.
> 
> wah, i was not aware that there are non-X11 graphical apps on MAC OS X.
> 
> (and, for what it worth, i didn't know what are pdfopen/pdfclose -
> i just noticed that they're not present on some platforms).
> 
> so then, i guess, since pdfopen/pdfclose are only useful in connection
> with acroread, we shall delete them from those archs where there is no
> acroread, right?
> 
> namely, shall we delete pdfopen/pdfclose (in addition to i386-darwin
> and powerpc-darwin) from: alpha-linux, i386-freebsd, sparc-linux?

I think so, yes. They are absolutely useless on those platforms.

Taco



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