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Public domain.  TeX Live TODO:

0.* Remaining todo.
0.5 Mails from Karl
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


0.2010 Things for after 2010 release
=================================

* 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

* separate Menu entries and Desktop links on Windows
  patch available

* allow on the fly update of options in the tlpdb
  patch available, small todo remains

0.* For 2011.
===========================================
- siep> Once ConTeXt in TL is up to date, we can fix the portable option
  siep> for ConTeXt.

- mactex.README.zip from koch in Master/source.

- untar on windows with tar -xmf to not update time stamps, which might
  be the source of problems

- retry untar if it failed after 3sec (configurable timeout) to make sure
  other programs have passed by

0.5 Mails from Karl
===========================================
perl -cw has the following minor complaints about the *.pm files.
(They were all clean at one point.)  I guess I should run this regularly ...

Name "TeXLive::TLMedia::nopostinstall" used only once: possible typo at
TLMedia.pm line 527.

Name "main::tlpsrc_pattern_no_warn_negative" used only once: possible typo at
TLPSRC.pm line 426.
Name "TeXLive::TLPSRC::DefaultCategory" used only once: possible typo at
TLPSRC.pm line 35.

Name "TeXLive::TLPaper::outfile" used only once: possible typo at TLPaper.pm
line 661.

Name "TeXLive::TLWinGoo::global_tmp" used only once: possible typo at
TLWinGoo.pm line 325.
---------------
Would you have any time/interest in hacking place to discover and svn rm
empty dirs?  I think it would have to be done after the other svn
operations are done, since before the dirs with removed things won't be
empty.

It works ok to rm them the next day, but it is an extra update and seems
generally less than ideal.

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.

if ask for susy and have Susy, or reverse, complain.
In general, the package name field should match the directory.

place should run t1lint on pfb's.

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


1b. outstanding package updates
-------------------------------
check all mentioned in staw msg on tldev, 23 Apr 2008 23:56:50.

beebe needs tons of work
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
plnfss # only a zip file on CTAN


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

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)

dvips and all: snprintf



3. Infrastructure and installer
===============================
3a. tlmgr
* improve info <pkg> 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 our the 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 hacs.

- 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)

- 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.

- tlmgr & installer: stop using system(foo <bar >baz)
to avoid shell quoting problems, see dev/dev.sys_redir.pl

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
===============
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.

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: web page on TeX (Live?) compilation
doc: utf-8 fails accent chars with texlive-ge

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

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 ?

5. 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).

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.

unzip 6.0?  Not until we see that there's some gain.