Re: KPathSea bindings for Java
Karl Berry <[email protected]>
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Suppose someone (else) wanted to create a JNI interface for, say, TeX typesetting functionality. In theory I agree it would be ideal, from a software engineering point of view, if this ended up as a single project that included both the jkpathsea and the new typesetting stuff, but in practice, how likely is that? In my experience ... hardly at all. People always want to set up new projects in ways that they understand, they control, etc. The amount of duplicated code in the world (TeX and otherwise) because of this is ... staggering. Thus I don't think it would be bad for everything about this to be named "jkpathsea"? "tex4j" sounds to me exactly like some sort of Java implementation/library for all of TeX, and it isn't. Wdyt? --best, karl.