Re: Some really unimportant bits

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:10:22PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > some weeks ago there was a discussion on the TDS mailing list about a
> > change in TDS.  In the future, platform independent programs (Perl,
> > Java, Ruby-scripts) will go into $TEXMF/scripts.  
> >
> > The scripts will be called by wrappers which are in the
> > bin/[<platform>] directory.
> >
> > Then you don't have to patch texdoctk any more, the wrapper can check
> > whether Tk.pm exists.  This is a bit slower but much easier to
> > maintain. 
> 
> Will this be in tetex-3.0?

tetex-3.0 will allow to store scripts in texmf trees (kpathsea supports
this), but this does not mean that all scripts will go into some texmf
tree.

I'll move scripts that can better be maintained inside some texmf tree,
such as thumbpdf which is released together with thumbpdf.tex on CTAN.
Having the script together with the tex file eliminates an unnecessary
dependency between texmf and src tarball.

As for texdoctk, I have not yet decided...

Thomas