[4664] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Athena 7.7 and LaTeX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bert@master.grad.hr)
Wed Jun 29 03:53:20 1994
From: bert@master.grad.hr
To: yandros@MIT.EDU
Cc: bert@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: yandros's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 94 16:13:47 +0500."
<9406282013.AA04933@infocalypse.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 94 09:51:23 +0100
> Possible solutions:
...
> 2. remove the symlinks, since people should be including
> '/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros' in $TEXINPUTS anyway
Well, they should be including an empty component, or at least
'/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros//' to do the subdir searching. But
other than that, you're right.
> 3. let it be broken for testing and update it later when bert installs
> the new new (newer than the release; the beta stuff) [la]tex in
> sipb.
This could work too; it's essentially the same as (2.), since the symlinks
will dangle when 7.7 comes.
> 4. remove [la]tex from sipb and point people at either newtek or
> the release instead (at least until someone is ready to install the
> new new [la]tex).
There are non-symlinks in /mit/sipb/lib/tex/macros. There also might be
links to places other than /usr/athena/lib/tex/macros (I'd check, but I'm
having problems logging into Athena). I think some of these should stay,
but some of them should be superseded by the new release stuff. Looking
into this would take some work, and I don't really see it happening, since
SIPB TeX/LaTeX stuff will get blown away at some point anyway.
So, I like 2 and 3 best (with marginal preference for 2), followed by 4.
I think 1 is a lose.
--bert
