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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2023-02-26 21:56:36 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2023-02-26 21:56:36 +0000 |
commit | a836aa89aaff61055928dbf4ba0ea3ef8f15bc51 (patch) | |
tree | c596163059357f93ad260db853fd3955219d87f1 /Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/NEWS | |
parent | 5f54db29da979f05965d02659e3f6530b5c8c228 (diff) |
general doc update for engines/etc.
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/NEWS b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..1df4a908c4e --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/kpathsea/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,407 @@ +$Id: NEWS 65770 2023-02-09 21:26:50Z karl $ +This file records noteworthy changes. (Public domain.) + +6.3.5 (for TeX Live 2023) +* Support guessing input file encodings for Unix-ish platforms, as on + Windows; enabled for (e)p(la)tex, pbibtex, mendex. + +6.3.4 (for TeX Live 2022) +* First return path from kpsewhich -all is now the same as non-all. + (Internally, str_list_uniqify retains ordering.) + +6.3.3 (for TeX Live 2021, 23 March 2021) +* The library does not emit warnings for unrecognized filenames, + leaving it up to the caller. +* Double save_size limit to 200,000 for tex4ht, l3regex, etc. + +6.3.2 (for TeX Live 2020, 27 March 2020) +* New option --cnf-line for kpsewhich (and tex and mf) to support + arbitrary configuration settings on the command line. +* Warn about unusual program name qualifiers. +* The mktex* programs are no longer maintained or present here, but in + TeX Live's Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive (with copies in + Build/source/texk/texlive/linked_scripts as usual). + +6.3.1 (for TeX Live 2019, 7 April 2019) +* kpsewhich --var-value does brace expansion as well as variable and + tilde expansion. +* The kpathsea_path_search() and related functions always recognize either + common path separator (: or ;) when splitting paths into elements. + (Before, there were some unusual contexts where this did not happen.) + +6.3.0 (for TeX Live 2018, 14 April 2018) +* New configuration value texmf_casefold_search to fall back to + case-insensitive search in non-system directories if there is no exact + match; only relevant on Unix. + +6.2.3 (for TeX Live 2017, 19 May 2017) +* .OTF treated like .otf. +* texmf.cnf: mpost removed from default shell_escape_commands. +* texmf.cnf: TEXINPUTS.luajitlatex added. +* texmf.cnf: default bibtex capacities increased. + +6.2.2 (for TeX Live 2016, 21 May 2016) +* gregorio added to default shell_escape_commands. + +6.2.1 (for TeX Live 2015, 21 May 2015) +* search path information output with new option --help-formats to kpsewhich, + no longer with --help. +* install <kpathsea/c-auto.h> in an architecture dependent location + and use pkg-config to get the required flags. + +6.2.0 (for TeX Live 2014, 30 May 2013) +* mktexlsr outputs normal msgs to stdout instead of stderr. +* do not ignore a non-terminated last line of a file. +* new texmf.cnf variables SELFAUTOGRANDPARENT, guess_input_kanji_encoding. +* Numerous changes for Windows. + +6.1.1 (for TeX Live 2013, 30 May 2013) +* just one tree: merge texmf into texmf-dist. + +6.1.0 (for TeX Live 2012, 1 July 2012) +* texmf.cnf is found in the great-grandparent's texmf-local, + corresponding to the default TeX Live installation. +* New formats for .ris, .bltxml. +* Merge with W32TeX. + +6.0.1 (for TeX Live 2011, 5 July 2011) +* Trailing comments and whitespace omitted from config values. +* Add .tlu to type lua suffixes, and .dfont to truetype suffixes. +* Prefix program_invocation{,_short}_name with kpse_. +* Finally remove kpse_set_progname (deprecated since 1998). + +6.0.0 (for TeX Live 2010, 4 June 2010) +* Change xmalloc and friends to use size_t, unfortunately changing the ABI. + +5.0.0 (for TeX Live 2009, 13 October 2009) +* Make shared library version and general package version the same. +* Make library re-entrant, thus unavoidable binary API changes. +* Change build system to Automake. + +3.5.7 (for TeX Live 2008, 8 July 2008) +* kpsewhich has new options --all (to report all matches) and --subdir + (to limit matches). +* more file suffixes (.dtx, et al.) and special files (updmap.cfg, et al.) + found automatically. +* add basic Lua support. +* add 64-bit functions for pdftex. +* autoconf support finally modernized. + +3.5.6 (for TeX Live 2006-07, 30 December 2006) +* longstanding minor portability/warnings problems. + +3.5.5 +* Copyrights of some source files were erroneously attributed to FSF. +* On Unix, accept the semicolon as well as the colon in environment + variables like TEXINPUTS. +* Keep metafont from choking on large literals (> 4000) when calling + mktexpk. + +3.5.4 (7 March 2005) +* Change of some standard environment/texmf.cnf variables: + HOMETEXMF -> TEXMFHOME + VARTEXMF -> TEXMFVAR + TEXMFVAR, TEXMFCONFIG: Always defined for the sake of teTeX 3.0. + TEXMFSYSVAR, TEXMFSYSCONFIG: Added for the sake of teTeX 3.0. +* mktex*: A new option for MT_FEATURES in mktex.cnf: texmfvar. If + selected, files that would be written into a system texmf tree go + to the TEXMFVAR tree. Overriden by varfonts. + +3.5.3 (28 November 2004) +* New options for kpsewhich + -var-value=VARIABLE to expand $VARIABLE without having to give an $ + on the command line. + -engine=ENGINE to set the engine name, used in some search paths. +* New formats: kpse_enc_format, kpse_cmap_format, kpse_sfd_format, + kpse_opentype_fomat, kpse_pdftex_config_format, kpse_lig_format, + kpse_texmfscript_format. +* Add .afmt to the suffixes for kpse_fmt_format. Aleph uses this. +* Rename access to kpseaccess. +* Rename readlink to kpsereadlink. +* Stop search early if we're given absolute or explicit relative names. +* Add 'angle(0,0)' to the metafont errors mktexpk will ignore. +* The withenable.ac script (used in configure) will fall back on using + kpsewhich to look for texmf trees. +* If ls-R is not found check for ls-r as well. +* kpsewhich: add -var-value option. + +3.5.2 (19 February 2003) +* Critical bugfix to db.c. + +3.5.1 (17 February 2003) +* No news. + +3.5.0 (15 February 2003) +* Use libtool. +* Do absolute searches again. +* Retain '${prefix}' in Makefile for texmf if that's how we found the tree. + +3.4.6 (7 February 2003) +* Support for e-Omega. +* Change to the search algorithm: when there are several possibilities, look + for all of them in one directory before moving to the next directory. + +3.4.5 (28 January 2003) +* Remove "." from the TEXCONFIG path. + +3.4.4 (16 January 2003) +* Add VARTEXMF HOMETEXMF to the default paths of texmf.in. + +3.4.3 (11 January 2003) +* Minor fixes. +* Use both .w and .web suffixes for cweb. + +3.4.2 (23 December 2002) +* Minor fixes to makefiles. +* A Win32 implementation of the fork/exec path in mktex. This leaves + MSDOS to be done. + +3.4.1 (20 December 2002) +* A couple of fixes for the fork/exec code. + +3.4.0 (14 December 2002) +* 3.4.x number as ABI is certainly broken now. +* Change the way the mktex* command lines are set up on unix systems. + Now we call fork/exec directly instead of using popen. + This code is not yet implemented for Windows/DOS. +* We're now (un?)fairly restrictive on what names are allowed for fonts. + That part of the code probably need improvement. +* When reading names from the ls-R file, they are no longer case-smashed. + So on platforms where this matters, the case-smashing should occur before + names are inserted into the ls-R file -- only lowercase should be used in + that file. + +3.3.11 (13 November 2002) +* Minor fixes. + +3.3.10 (11 November 2002) +* Minor fixes. + +3.3.9 (22 October 2002) +* New extension: .oft for Omega formats. + +3.3.8 (11 October 2002) +* Add support for mktexfmt (which is normally a link to fmtutil). +* Check both VAR.progname and VAR_progname in the environment. + +3.3.7 (27 November 2001) +* Minor fixes/changes to assist Omega development. + +3.3.6 (18 November 2001) +* Minor fixes/changes to assist Omega development. + +3.3.5 (10 November 2001) +* Minor bug fixes. + +3.3.4 (30 October 2001) +* Minor bug fixes. + +3.3.3 (5 August 2000) +* On NeXT, 'rm -rf' will not fail, but uses the cwd as its argument. + mktexlsr counted on it to fail, with sometimes disastrous results. + +3.3.2 (25 April 1999) +* Minor bug fixes. + +3.3.1 (29 May 1999) +* Minor bug fixes. + +3.3 (26 March 1999) +* Minor bugfixes. + +3.2 (15 March 1998) +* Brace expansion will accept the path separator as well as the comma, + e.g., {foo:bar}. +* For TeX, we only recognize one suffix, because there is no such thing + as a canonical list of TeX suffixes. +* We distinguish between two kinds of suffixes in the code: the standard + suffixes which may be appended to filenames when searching; and the + alternative suffixes which are never appended, but when found this + prevents a search with one of the standard suffixes. +* kpse_reset_program_name: change assumed program name, resets the search + paths, so that searches will work as expected for the new name. +* kpse_set_program_name: new function, replaces kpse_set_progname. +* The MakeTeX* scripts have been renamed to mktex* forms. + +3.1 (10 November 1997) +* The support for multiple texmf trees is much improved. +* New MakeTeX* scripts, based on teTeX's. These scripts now use + heuristics to decide where generated files are placed and which + permissions they should have. +* The varfonts feature is enabled by default. +* Some MSDOS/Win32 support added to the sources. +* Change in searching algorithm: if a name doesn't have the default suffix + we append it for the first search. Then we search for the bare name. + Thus if you have foo.bar and foo.bar.tex, the latter will now be found + first. Under the old system, you had to specify boo.bar.tex.tex to get + foo.bar.tex instead of foo.bar. +* Prepend the value of KPSE_DOT to relative paths from texmf.cnf if it + defined in the environment. This means we can use . instead of + $KPSE_DOT in paths. +* Define brace expansion so that {a,b}{1,2} expands to a1:b1:a2:b2. This + is different from how shells do it, and exploited in texmf.in. +* Renamed texmf.cnf.in to texmf.in. +* New value for debugging: DEBUG_VARS, equal to 64. +* If a file format has no suffix, allow its long name as the argument to + kpsewhich --format. + +3.0 (7 February 1997) +* Distribution terms changed to the GNU Library General Public License. +* Default directory structure matches the TDS standard. The most + important change is in the fonts/ directory: the file type (tfm, pk) + is now directly underneath fonts/. Also, mft/ is now at the top level. + `modeless' is used for gsftopk/ps2pk/etc.-generated fonts. +* Change in searching algorithm: if the name already has a suffix + (foo.sty), search for it by itself first, before appending the default + suffix (foo.sty.tex). This loses if you have an executable named + foo.bar, with documentation in foo.bar.tex (foo.bar will be found + first). But this is unusual, and the other case is common. +* Environment variables PATH_program (e.g., TEXINPUTS_latex) checked + for, as with configuration file values (TEXINPUTS.latex). +* Multiple TEXMF trees supported, via the following new facility: +* Shell brace expansion {foo,bar} implemented, thanks to Bash. +* Multiple ls-R files supported via the TEXMFDBS path. +* An ``alias'' database for files in ls-R supported, to handle 8.3 problems. +* Directories in the ls-R file can be relative (./) as well as absolute (/). +* New MakeTeX{PK,TFM,MF} scripts with more features, based on teTeX's. +* DVIPSMAKEPK (etc.) actually overrides the name `MakeTeXPK', as documented. +* MakeTeX* can be globally disabled via configure options. +* Support for building as a shared library with configure --enable-shared. +* Directories whose names begin with `.' are ignored. +* Some warnings can be suppressed by TEX_HUSH cnf value or envvar. +* kpsewhich has many new capabilities, documented via --help and in the manual. +* texfonts.map parsing has an include directive, and @c is a comment. +* Input lines in texmf.cnf can be continued with \. +* TEXMFLOG can be set in texmf.cnf, as previously documented. +* SELFAUTODIR and SELFAUTOPARENT are defined according to the location + of the binary, and used to search for texmf.cnf. +* /// (or more) is equivalent to //. +* If $HOME = / (as with root on some systems), avoid creating // in paths. +* Support for AFM, PostScript Type 1 font, source, documentation, Omega, + and MetaPost-related file formats. +* New header kpathsea.h with all #include files. +* Under DOS, ls-R lines need not start with . or / or \ (e.g., c:). +* Amiga support. + +2.6 (9 January 1995) +* MakeTeXPK installed from kpathsea, instead of each driver. +* MakeTeXPK.site looked for in texmf/web2c, instead of texmf/dvips. +* texmf.cnf installed and looked for in texmf/web2c, instead of texmf. +* If a mode is not explicitly specified, search all subdirectories (this + was actually in a previous release). +* install-sh only looked for in the top-level directory. +* kpsewhich replaces and generalizes kpsexpand. + +2.5 (15 December 1994) +* Go back to calling db_insert after a successful MakeTeXPK, and check + for lack of an ls-R. +* Handle case of magstep -.5 for MakeTeXPK properly. + +2.4 (28 October 1994) +* Avoid calling db_insert, which caused a segmentation fault. + +2.3 (26 October 1994) +* Extra :'s in an envvar value, referring to the texmf.cnf value, work. +* Names like dpi600/cmr10.pk can be found in ls-R. +* KPATHSEA_DEBUG environment variable checked. +* Directories like pk/ljfour directly under $TEXMF/fonts are found. +* New standalone program, kpsexpand, optionally compiled and installed, + to do variable expansion (not path searching). +* Debugging output written to stderr instead of stdout. +* pxlNNN support removed; I never intended to support `pxl1500', and + pxl300 is never used. + +2.2 (14 October 1994) +* MakeTeXPK invoked for the any_glyph type; this is for xdvik. +* MakeTeXPK sources $(psheaderdir)/MakeTeXPK.site if it exists. +* pxlNNN/cmr10.pk searched for (as well as dpiNNN/cmr10.pk and cmr10.NNNpk) + +2.1 (12 September 1994) +* Manual goes through TeX, and .cps/.aux files are in the distribution. +* INSTALL* variables set at the top level. +* Dependency on GNU tr making paths.h and texmf.sed (->texmf.cnf) removed. +* texmf.cnf installed if it didn't previously exist. + +2.0 (8 September 1994) +* Runtime configuration file support; see the manual. +* Both dpi600/cmr10.pk and cmr10.600pk are searched for. +* ls-R matches $TEXMF//latex2e vs. $TEXMF//latex209. +* $TEXMFLOG, if set, specifies a filename for logging successful searches. +* All directory entries beginning with `.' are ignored, not just `.' and `..'. +* Default path for PK and GF fonts includes the mode name. +* ls-R is in $TEXMFROOT instead of hardwired at compile time. +* More debugging flags, and they can be set with client program options. +* If MakeTeX{PK,TFM} fail, or aren't invoked, a file missfont.log is + written with the requisite commands, as in dvips. +* More 328/329/330 fixes, maybe for the last time. +* The override font paths (XDVIFONTS etc.) apply only to glyph (PK/GF) + searches, not TFM or VF. +* -g is not the default when linking, to avoid unnecessarily large binaries + (due to static libraries) under Linux. +* configure checks for a smart putenv. +* Stat results are cached to speed up disk searches. + +1.8 (2 April 1994) +* New target install-info, so the documentation can be installed without + the headers. +* Existing but unreadable files are complained about, instead of just ignored. +* A leading %% in a path element forbids searching the disk for that + element; only a db will be searched (if it exists). +* The db is only used if it might be relevant to a given path element, + not searched first regardless. + +1.7 (1 March 1994) +* Searches can use an externally-built ls-R ``database'', for speed. +* `VPATH = .' lines removed from generated Makefile, for broken Sun make. +* A path foo//tfm finds foo/tfm as well as foo/*/tfm. + +1.6 (3 February 1994) +* Memory fault in copying long paths fixed. +* More variables passed down from the top-level Makefile. +* Mention SMART_PUTENV in the INSTALL file, and fix bug in xputenv.c + when one envvar is a proper prefix of another. +* More attempts at eliminating magstephalf annoyances. +* Directory name substitutions are done globally when creating paths.h. +* Various changes for DOS. + +1.5 (24 January 1994) +* Default paths changed. +* Defining GCC_WCHAR lets GCC define wchar_t. +* EXIT_FAILURE and EXIT_SUCCESS defined in all cases (if they're not already). +* str[r]chr never redefined (I hope). + +1.4 (3 November 1993) +* Check closest fallback font size. +* All default paths (including dvips') in paths.h.in, not the Makefile. +* Rearrange directory lists so that dirs in which a file is found + migrate to the top. +* Update for Autoconf 1.7. + +1.3 (6 October 1993) +* Fix free of non-malloced memory bug. +* Fix uninitialized gf path bug. +* mkdirchain invoked as an absolute filename. + +1.2 (27 September 1993) +* Running MakeTeXPK is tried before the fallback resolutions. +* The final bitmap name uses a variable spec, so DOS & OS/2 can get + dpi300/cmr10.pk. +* Document TeX-specific features. +* Dpi passed to MakeTeXPK via the envvar KPATHSEA_DPI instead of MAKETEX_DPI. + +1.1 (26 August 1993) +* Installation fixes. + +1.0 (5 August 1993) +* Routines to look up TeX font files, default path specifications, etc. +* Sort-of pattern matching: /foo//bar matches subdirectories + /foo/a/bar, /foo/b/bar, /foo/a1/a2/bar, etc. +* $var and ${var} expansion. +* Support for MakeTeX... scripts. +* Support for fallback resolutions and font. +* Lazy evaluation of path elements. +* Some runtime debugging support. + +0.2 (12 May 1993) + +First general release as a standalone library. |