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Public domain.  TeX Live TODO:

0. 2010
1. Package updates
   a. add more packages
   b. fix ctan2tds and friends
   d. outstanding package updates
2. Source updates
3. Infrastructure and installer
4. random stuff


0. Things that have to hang fire until 2010
===========================================
- Fix .ARCH revision computation to ignore .tlpsrc and use a 
  file from the package itself when decreasing revisions need to be
  handled.  Norbert mail to tldev, 22 Nov 2009 01:09:56.
- unzip 6.0?
- Remove hide=1 from *.tlpsrc and in TLUtils.pm do:
  -  my $hide = (defined($keyval{'hide'}) ? $keyval{'hide'} : 0);
  +  my $hide = (defined($keyval{'hide'}) ? $keyval{'hide'} : 1);


2009:  (What is status of these?)
- Vista/W7: provide a link in the start menu "TeX Live Manager GUI Admin Mode"
- fix w32 tar.exe to unpack long long file names (context.doc.tar.xz)

1. Package updates
==================
Please see http://www.tug.org/texlive/pkgupdate.html.

Check/fix multiple files with the same name, especially with
different sizes and not under /source/ or /doc/ or /tex4ht/ -- kpse will
find one version at random.  Do not add to the problem.


1a. add more packages
---------------------
as we add new packages, be sure to add them to tlpkg-ctan-check.
ultimately, we want to go back and look at all the existing packages and
add them too.


1b. fix ctan2tds et al.
-----------------------
(Aside from the whole script being a horrible kludge that needs
rewriting from scratch.)

tlprm does not know how to delete all emptied parent directories.

etoolbox.pdf from CTAN is incorrectly guessed by svn to be text, thus
the result is corrupted when checked in.  So did:
  svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream \
      /home/texlive/karl/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.pdf 
but of course somewhere in ctan2tl should check for this.

We should make the cooked tree start at the top, not in Master, so we
can autocommit the linked_scripts updates.

check all die messages for "sorry".

%moreclean
	rerun every package listed in this hash to be sure changes
	around 24dec07 haven't broken things.  be careful.

place should run t1lint on pfb's.

place should complain about inconsistent line endings and
	case-insensitive clashes instead of leaving it.


1d. outstanding package updates
-------------------------------
run tlpkg-ctan-check --check

check all mentioned in staw msg on tldev, 23 Apr 2008 23:56:50.


beebe needs tons of work
eulervm vs. euler vs. new euler ... no eulervm.pdf
logic/gn-logic14 conflicts with logic font
lshort-russian # only zip files on CTAN
ltxmisc various packages
malayalam 07-11-20 (tlpkginfo does not work on this) CTAN dir language/malayalam
malayalam-omega 07-11-20
mathspic # inside pictex later
mx NEW 08-01-26 a mexican dialect of spanish
plnfss # only a zip file on CTAN
r_und_s plain files should be in tex/plain, but does it matter?
ethiop madness: combines ps-type1/ethiop and other packages.
pkfix madness: copy in texmf/scripts/pkfix, but no autoupdate there
- included in bin-dvips.tpm
- windows .bat version? some magical .exe
- ctan location is support/pkfix


1e. tlpsrc2tlpdb conversion
---------------------------
maybe 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

if ask for susy and have Susy, or reverse, complain.
In general, the package name field should match the directory.
(Except for our bin-* junk.)


2. Sources updates
==================
ptex changes (pdvitype, etc.) should be merged into the main programs,
instead of duplicating all the normal changes.


3. Infrastructure and installer
===============================

- keep list of forcibly removed packages in tlpdb, so package-to-package
  dependencies can really be followed.

- user mode for tlmgr

- _install_package in TLMedia and install_package in TLUtils appear to be
  doing basically the same job. This is bad.
  So rewrite the installer to use TLMedia instead of the horrible hacks of
  TLUtils.

- 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.

- use Net::ftp/http and keep connection open during download so not to 
  open a new connection for all the time...

- 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)

- multiple sources, see tlpkg/doc/multi-support.txt

- 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.

- fix the included "include schemes" patch to have the correct default 
  path components, it seems that per default 2008 is missing.


tlmgr/tlmgr2 

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
===============
lcdf --with-cxx-runtime-hack to get static libs

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)

see about including pdfjam

rewrite updmap/fmtutil, texconfig
	. in perl
	. work with multiple updmap.cfg files independently

rework 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.

bbold - get type1's from yytex repo, put on CTAN, etc.?

infra: texmf/xindy not reported by check-file-coverage though not in tlp's
infra: specify defaults for the package types
       (TLCore/Package/Documentation) in a *.tlpsrc instead of buried in
       the code, for transparency.
infra: scheme-minimal is not minimal.  Neither is collection-basic.  It
       ends up installing core latex due to dependencies.

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.
      2) change place to 
        svn propset svn:mime-type application/octet-stream
         for all *.pdf.
      3) report heuristic bug to svn.


doc: texlive-en.tex:  Explain how (where) to customize texmf.cnf.
doc: web page on TeX (Live?) compilation
doc: utf-8 fails accent chars with texlive-ge

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
tex: CTRL-C at "please enter file name" should dtrt
tex: --no-mktex=fmt  should be supported
pdfopen: fixed http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/wp-uploads/mavpdfopensrc.zip
dvips: comment line break http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/b8ed25cc6153d5c
dvips: \special{map: ...} a la \pdfmapline (reinhardk 30dec06)
dvips: maybe stuff from dvipsfnt.txt from yy

build: --without-omega (and aleph?) doesn't stop omega compilation.
build: remove ncurses and make dialog use system version

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 ?

WON'T DO:
---------
.tds.zip should run through jimh's checker before we believe it.
But unfortunately we can't do this because Jim's stuff is Python-based
and has too many library dependencies.

magyar: should be included in babel but is lacking a dtx, see
http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=babel/4018
Up to author(s).