Re: Compatibility

Vladimir Yumashev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Neither am I inclined to upgrade to new "supported"  Windows,
unless they explain clearly what they are spending huge computer resources for.
I understand well what I spend gigabytes of core and disk memory for,
so I expect the developers to explain their reasons for doing that
(except the desire to make me visit a computer shop again and again).

Kind regards


Пятница,  1 августа 2014, 16:13 UTC от David Allsopp <[email protected]>:
> 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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