Re: texconfig in tetex-3.0 again

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:12:09PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> > The commands should have been left the way they were -- as
> > system-level commands, with new commands with new names added for
> > bold and experienced users to run to handle their own
> > configurations.
> > 
> > By changing the names of the commands run at the system level, you
> > not only mess with the heads of experienced sysadmins, but you
> > also potentially break any scripts that might have relied on those
> > names (and their functionality) remaining consistent.
> 
> That was an astonishingly bad decision.  I have tons of
> software, much of it written more than a decade ago, which has
> happily been using TeX to produce all kinds of printed output
> [...]

Maybe a bit bad, but we're only talking about the tetex-specific
configuration scripts here - texconfig, fmtutil, updmap - not anything
else.  These would rarely, if ever, be run by automated scripts
(excepting package maintenance scripts).

   Julian