[12466] in Athena Bugs
Re: You left texinfo.tex out of the release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Wed Aug 24 15:22:52 1994
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-bert@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[12425] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 15:22:37 EDT
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
> 7.6 had a texinfo.tex in /usr/athena/lib/tex/macros, but in 7.7 it's
> nowhere to be found. I admit that the version in 7.6 was so broken as
> to be unusable, but it should have been upgraded rather than removed.
The only purpose upgrading it would accomplish is, a couple of
releases forward it would be "broken as to be unusable" again. Athena
is not (and shouldn't be) in the business of updating the packs every
time FSF releases something, and it's bound to get out of date.
Therefore, I personally think it's a better idea to just leave
volatile style files (texinfo, thesis template, etc.) in various
lockers. [A compromise solution might be installing a symlink in the
packs pointing to texinfo.tex, but that sounds really ugly to me.]
--bert, offering his three pfenigs
