[arch] is latex dying?

[Damir Perisa]

Thursday 04 January 2007 17:34, Michel Di Croci wrote:
 | Funny question maybe, is latex dying? I mean if no one replaced
 | the maintainer of tetex, is it not a bit risky to continue working
 | with this software? We know the power of the software but in the
 | long term, we also know that it won't integrated any new
 | functionality.

that's definitely a good point. in general, if microsoft would be 
giving up a product, i would worry to use it. but tetex is kind of 
only one distribution and source is accessible as far i know, it is 
not a dying project, it is the current maintainence that is dying. 
latex, or tex in general can be compiled with other engines as 
well... so i hope - no, i'm sure that we for quite a long time will 
have at least one pkg that is providing one of the tex/latex 
interpreters in archlinux. 

that's why i do not consider it risky to use it "in opus" for now. 
your point is well taken, and we should check what is happening in 
this field - we for sure are not interested to use windows to have a 
tex interpreter :)

- D

-- 
meterologist, n.:
	One who doubts the established fact that it is
	bound to rain if you forget your umbrella.
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