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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/PROJECTS b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/PROJECTS index c8f2bef47ec..61365a78da6 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/PROJECTS +++ b/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/PROJECTS @@ -1,12 +1,11 @@ +(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. - -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. +Kpathsea has never officially been released as a standalone library, +even though in practice it is used that way by OS distributions. +Perhaps it would be good to support a standalone release. For multiple texmf.cnf files (or multiple dvips configuration files), replace extra :'s by the value from the next file in the path, rather @@ -18,6 +17,3 @@ 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. |