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TODO
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Contents
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1. Package updates
a. add more packages
b. fix ctan2tds
c. hyphenation patterns
d. outstanding package updates
2. Sources updates
3. Infrastructure
a. General stuff
b. Installer
4. random stuff
1. Package updates
==================
Please see http://www.tug.org/texlive/pkgupdate.html.
And fix tlpkg-ctan-check when it can't find files or has other problems.
And 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.
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.
the cb font collection was reduced to 10pt only in 2007.
since we're only going to release on dvd in 2008, we should bring it
back. Likewise the big pst-geo file and anything else removed for
space reasons.
eulervm vs. euler vs. new euler ... no eulervm.pdf
1b. fix ctan2tds et al.
-----------------------
(Aside from the whole script being a horrible kludge that needs
rewriting from scratch.)
check all die messges for "sorry".
r_und_s - plain files should be in tex/plain, but does it matter?
authorindex
the perl file "authorindex" must be moved to source/latex/authorindex
%moreclean
rerun every package listed in this hash to be sure changes
around 24dec07 haven't broken things. be careful.
ctan2tl should have an option to copy a tds-ready zip from CTAN:install
instead of the main ctan, e.g., the glossaries pkg.
place should report on any files in the new tree missing from the tlpobj.
1c. hyphenation patterns
------------------------
There are endless hyphenation files to sort out if you care to work on
that incredibly frustrating task. Some half-baked attempts have been
made in ctan2tds et al., but nothing that really works. We cannot trust
that any of the hyphenation files are autochecked against CTAN; perhaps
we should write a special-purpose script that does that and only that,
on a case-by-case basis.
The general theory is for the hyphenation files themselves to go into
texmf/tex/generic/hyphen, and the other support files (if any) to go
into texmf-dist/source/generic. Sometimes there are style files (plain
or latex or whatever) to install too. Except elhyphen and huhyphen are
in texmf/doc/generic and included in the hyphen-* package instead of
being their own! Which is better?
1d. outstanding package updates
-------------------------------
run tlpkg-ctan-check --check
check all mentioned in staw msg on tldev, 23 Apr 2008 23:56:50.
abstyles not updated but too old to matter
beebe needs tons of work
japanese requires ptex
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
2. Sources updates
==================
ncurses should be removed -- only dialog uses it, and can't it use a
system curses? already required for texinfo. or maybe dialog is no
longer needed at all?
3. Infrastructure
=================
3a. general stuff
-----------------
space at the end MUST BE IGNORED!!! Currently the reading routines do
save terminal spaces ... that is bad!
3b. installer
-------------
- rewrite the installer to use TLMedia instead of the horrible hacks of
TLUtils.
- more intelligent support of
texmf-local/web2c/fmtutil-local.cnf
texmf-local/web2c/updmap-local.cfg
texmf-local/tex/generic/config/language-local.dat
currently these files are simply added at the end of the respective
config files at installation time, but not in any way checked for
duplication etc.
see create_* in TeXLive::TLUtils
Furthermore, at *every* call of these functions stuff that has been
activated or deactivated using updmap --disable or updmap --enable
just breaks!
So what about doing the postinst action of installation of an map
via --enable map, too, instead of regenerating everything ...
Especially package updates could be a problem
- Shell libraries
. test the tlp_ and the tldb_tlp_ functions
. missing functionality?
. rewrite the long read/case with awk/grep/whatever there is
5. random stuff
===============
---------------
lcdf --with-cxx-runtime-hack to get static libs
kpsewhich special case things in tcfmgr.map
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)
rewrite updmap/fmtutil
. in perl (in lua?)
. 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.
infra: if ask for susy and have Susy, or reverse, complain
infra: texmf/xindy not reported by check-file-coverage though not in tlp's
infra: handle man pages for script packages, e.g., thumbpdf,
mkjobtexmf; right now, we svn revert the man by hand after --place
and before commit ... not good.
repo: remake with new svn, make special repo backups
doc: manifesto, contributors
doc: how to add a new tree (e.g., for context)
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
sigh: lm vs. ec, 3jun06/stubner.gz msg
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