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Re: Heads-up: teTeX packages contain old versions of style files
- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke at gnu dot org>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:09:44 +0200
- Subject: Re: Heads-up: teTeX packages contain old versions of style files
- Organization: Jan at Appel
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0410251408440.16595@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
Igor Pechtchanski writes:
Igor,
> I'm not sure if this is a pure Cygwin teTeX problem or if this needs to be
> fixed upstream,
Yes, this is an upstream problem. teTeX 2.0.2 is the last release,
which still has \def\filedate{2000/05/21}.
> , but the tetex-extra package contains very old versions of
> some of the style files (in particular, acronym.sty). Is there a reason
> why it can't be updated from CTAN for the next release?
I'm not sure, Debian also still ships this file. I have been working
with teTeX and web2c developers to get the tetex 3.0 prereleases
better prepared for Cygwin, and I'd rather spend time on that.
Jan.
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