[tex-live] texdoc should always use TEXDOCS

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Fri Mar 16 13:14:25 CET 2007


2007/3/16, Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch>:
> I don't know how fmtutil and these things work on windows, but I also
> don't see how this is related to the question of maintaining Thomas'
> tools in TeXlive.  Either they do work for both now, then it's
> irrelevant.  Or they don't, then we should in the long run try to find a
> unified way.  But they still continue to be somewhat
> distribution-specific.

Most of Thomas' tools are shell scripts and as such don't work on
Windows; the Windows versions usually are complete reimplementations
in e.g. perl.

LuaTeX will make this easier one day, as we will then have a lua
interpreter on all plattforms.

Best
   Martin


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