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+(This file is public domain.)
+
+Here are some ideas for improvements. If you would like to contribute,
+please send mail to tex-k@tug.org first.
+
+Kpathsea has never officially been released as a standalone library,
+even though in practice it is used that way by OS distributions.
+It would be good to support a standalone release.
+
+It would be cleaner to always do a case-insensitive search for all
+suffixes, instead explicitly listing (for example) both ".otf" and ".OTF".
+
+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. But compatibility probably requires
+that this not be done.
+
+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.