Re: Compatibility

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:39:17 +0400 schrieb Vladimir Yumashev:
> 
> > I am still using 2.1 and am quite satisfied with it.
> > Some years ago I decided to try 2.7 and found out that Metafont became
> > huge and slow. Similar things usually occur with other products. That
> > is why I am suspicious regarding any upgrade proposals.
> > With 2.1 I demonstrated  even chess and music to my students. What
> > else would one need?
> 
> biblatex + biber, tikz, lualatex, xelatex, (pdf)etex (is perhaps there),
> beamer, siunitx, ... If I think longer I will find a lot of new things
> that I would miss horribly.

And that's even before noting that MiKTeX 2.1 doesn't work (at least properly) on any supported version of Windows!

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