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+Here are some ideas for improvements. If you would like to contribute,
+please send mail to me (infovore@xs4all.nl) first.
+
+
+If the library is built shared, it would be nice if the binaries did not
+have it as a dependency; as it is, all of Web2c gets rebuilt if the
+library changes, even though logically only relinking (maybe not even
+that) is necessary. This is because if the Web2c programs themselves
+get relinked (as they do), we must reconvert the web programs.
+
+For multiple texmf.cnf files (or multiple dvips configuration files),
+replace extra :'s by the value from the next file in the path, rather
+than the value from the next level.
+
+Support runtime registration of file types to search for, not just
+compile-time. Either by a procedure call, or by reading a configuration
+file. Implies putting the envvar list into the kpse_format_info_type struct.
+
+cd during filesystem operations, to minimize the pathname
+length. Implies always using xgetwd.
+
+Separate the routines needed for path searching, and others that are here
+only because it's a common place -- i.e., a kutil library.