$Id$ Public domain. TeX Live TODO: 0. Remaining todo. 1. Package updates a. fix ctan2tds and friends b. outstanding package updates 2. Source updates 3. Infrastructure and installer a. tlmgr b. more 4. Random stuff 5. Won't do 0.* Forever. ========================================== *** work on the items in the TODO file! Consider items in the tracker: https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?group=texlive 0.1 After release. =========================================== * retry untar if it failed after 3sec (configurable timeout) to make sure other programs have passed by * Rewrite installer option_ handling that *always* the option name in the tlpdb and in the $vars{'option_*'} agree. Make initialization of those options from the tlpdb using $tlpdb->option('-installer' => 1) not complain on the tlpsrc-set (installer only option) not complain 1a. fix ctan2tds et al. ----------------------- (Aside from the whole script being a horrible kludge that needs rewriting from scratch.) tlprm and place do not know how to delete all emptied parent directories. csplain cstex cs cslatex (and others) -- tlpkginfo should create the directories, so that tlpkg-ctan-check can check them, instead of doing some of the weird unpacking in ctan2tds.pl. if ask for susy and have Susy, or reverse, complain. place should run t1lint on pfb's, etc. (a la check-files-by-format). place should complain about inconsistent line endings and case-insensitive clashes instead of leaving it for the nightly run. 1b. outstanding package updates ------------------------------- check all mentioned in staw msg on tldev, 23 Apr 2008 23:56:50. genmisc et al. need work (see "sorry" in ctan2tds) ethiop madness: combines ps-type1/ethiop and other packages. eulervm vs. euler vs. new euler ... no eulervm.pdf logic/gn-logic14 conflicts with logic font 2. Sources updates ================== kpse: texmfdbs should not have to exclude non-!! dirs, should be able to go back to just TEXMF. kpathsea should search the disk even if ls-R is present, without !!. (koch 29dec06) but it feels too late to change this. 3. Infrastructure and installer =============================== 3a. tlmgr * improve info output for multiple repositories * xetex conf.d postcode: 1. I'm sorry, but can you remind me why we have xetex/conf/conf.d/*.conf and why we copy them in our installation? Neither XeTeX or LuaTeX do anything with these files, right? Some of them refer to fonts and/or software that are not in TL. 2. According to my current understanding, we should actually be creating texlive-fontconfig.conf when luatex is installed, not just xetex. Although luatex does not use -lfontconfig like xetex does, it still reads the fontconfig configuration (specifically, /etc/fonts/fonts.conf) and thus to use system font name lookups in luatex on Unix, fontconfig stuff must be done. Am I missing something? * pinning should we add a way to allow for numerical comparison of revision? 3b. More - keep list of forcibly removed packages in tlpdb, so package-to-package dependencies can really be followed. - _install_package in TLMedia and install_package in TLUtils appear to be doing basically the same job. Bad. Rewrite installer to use TLMedia instead of the TLUtils hacks. - tlpobj vs actual files vs other packages installation, aka safer^2 currently we just unpack what is in the tar file, but never check that the contents actually agrees with what is listed in the tlpdb. We not even check that the tlpobj contained in the container agrees with the tlpobj taken from the tlpdb. That allows to ship practically everything in the container, overwritting unrelated files. Also not checked is that unpacking the container does not overwrite files from a different package. - extend revisions (Master/tlpkg/etc/generalize-revisions.diff) (implemented and working) we want: NNN[.RRR] - NNN as normal revision number - .RRR to provide various upgrades (think of context providing packages with everyday addint +1 to the revision number they could easily overtake upstream texlive) - change tl-update-tlnet and tlpkg-by-size to implicitly get the network release directory (tldev, 2008) instead of hardwiring. Then update doc/packages.txt. infra: texmf/xindy not reported by check-file-coverage though not in tlp's MAYBE TODO (needs discussion) - ordering or collections removal (see below for details) - (?) removal does not remove created format files from TEXMFSYSVAR - after install/update show the number of bytes transfered (email Rolf Niepraschk) 4. Random stuff =============== stop using system(foo baz) (in tlmgr, installer, everywhere) to avoid shell quoting problems; see dev/dev.sys_redir.pl. Use list form of system if at all possible. resolve the psnfss/fonts/metrics chaos see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433137 (aren't there other more general debian bugs? utopia and fpl aren't the problem.) With the metric files, the problem isn't so much the packaging as the provenance. We do not know where many of them came from, some correspond to nonfree fonts, others are obsolete, etc., etc. And yet, removing any tfm at all will probably break documents and/or packages. frank@kuesterei.ch's msgs to tex-live of 23 Oct 2006 19:19:28, 11 Oct 2006 13:32:20, and related begin to get at the problem. ... meanwhile, we could at least merge all the "font" packages (avantar..zapfding) into psnfss, where really they come from on CTAN? rk mail to tldev, 19 Sep 2009 01:06:34. repo: make special repo backups repo: memman.pdf, etoolbox.pdf, hyperref README.pdf -- svn guesses wrongly that it is text, resulting pdf is junk, pdffonts can't read it for example. original on ctan is fine. 1) check for other broken pdf's (done by check-files-by-format) 2) change place to svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream for all *.pdf. (done in r11793 but comment says 'needs testing') 3) report heuristic bug to svn. doc: utf-8 fails accent chars with texlive-ge tex: --no-mktex=fmt should be supported pdfopen: fixed http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/wp-uploads/mavpdfopensrc.zip iso: optimize image, http://www.tina-vision.net/tina-knoppix/remastering.html sigh: lm vs. ec, 3jun06/stubner.gz msg announce: slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, prweb.com, prnewswire.com ? Things to do that karl noticed in TL'05, many still relevant :( -- dvips psfonts.map != pfb /Fontname => courier qa: online mf qa: pdfetex -ini \&etex story sparc crash (sparc) qa: wrong /Length embedding, http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2004-September/006755.html qa: wncyr10 qa: english hyphenation in context! cdbuild/dupl.pl, 8-bit pseudoprint from olaf eitan real source for .tex (seb 10oct04) check that all pfb's are in psfonts.map kpsewhich mention which env names in debug output/if not found autoupdate .bib files fr hyphen test (from eurotex03 abstracts + de from hufflen?) output format initialized in log file, 16 Nov 2004 08:09:16 +0100 gaulle ps2ps/bbox for pdftricks, 15 Nov 2004 15:07:26 +0100 gerben doc: bio of contributors, with pictures doc: tex-live.sty no include lmodern, for German special.map: handle like main maps (wl mail, 19 Jun 2005 01:21:15 +0200) 5. WON'T DO: ============ should only find package names at the appropriate levels, so that graphics.tlpsrc does not have to include lines like docpattern +!d texmf-dist/doc/latex/tufte-latex/graphics -- No, the special cases involved are worse than the disease. tex: implement fancier behavior at prompt file name, see knuth update notes and thread at http://tug.org/mailman/private/tex-implementors/2008/001925.html -- No, current behavior seems good enough, interactive use is minor. use unzip 6.0? -- Not until we see that there's some gain. Create a "single user" installation option such that TEXMFSYSCONFIG == TEXMFCONFIG and TEXMFSYSVAR == TEXMFVAR so that updmap and updmap-sys would do exactly the same thing, hence never conflict. -- this would just add another layer of confusion and source of error. Have BibTeX not require .bib extension, similarly not other extensions. (suggestion from Bob Morris to karl, 10 Oct 2015). -- no, because if "bibtex foo" found "foo" when there was no foo.bib, it could easily be a binary. This has been a constant problem, introduced from day one by the concept of "default extension". I fear it is too deeply embedded in all TeX software by now to change.