[XeTeX] How to manually create the xelatex.fmt?

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, George N. White III wrote:
> Users also don't like to discover that the publishers' LaTeX format they
> need won't work with the distro TeX, or that a document that formats correctly
> on a co-author's Mac or Windows system won't format on their linux system.

That seems to me to be a reason to *continue* support for older versions,
not a reason to *end* it.  I don't understand how you got from the above
to the next thing you wrote:

> The TeX ecosystem needs some reasonable limits on how long old versions
> should be supported.  If users can't get adequate support from their

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