* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050313 18:15]: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > I think replacing the prosper-package with ha-prosper wouldn't be > > a good choice. I'd like to provide ha-prosper in a separate > > package > > so when TeXciting is available there aren't any breakages with > > prosper. > Recently I investigated some time in LaTeX based presentation tools. > The consequence was: > 1. Prosper is nice but development tsopped since about 3 years. > 2. HA-prosper was kind of continuing the work of prosper. It is > more enhanced and I even builded some packages for my private > use of it until I noticed latex-beamer (see below). My impression > was that while it is superior about prosper and should prosper > replace regarding to this fact it is not really worth packaging > because development is stalled as well because of the new > TeXciting project. > 3. LaTeX-Beamer has compatibility modes for prosper and ha-prosper. > It is much more feature complete and flexible than both above. > There is absolutely no reson to investigate time into any > *prosper package because LaTeX-Beamer is the package your > really want. For an example see > http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200503_peking_cdd/index_en.html > I do not know anything about TeXciting and thus I can not compare > but before crowding the archive with a package like ha-prosper > try LaTeX-Beamer. I do know many people who are used to ha-prosper and haven't switched to LaTeX-Beamer yet. ha-prosper needs less space than latex-beamer (not taking care of dependencies but ratio should be equalent): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # apt-cache show ha-prosper | grep Installed-Size Installed-Size: 516 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # apt-cache show latex-beamer | grep Installed-Size Installed-Size: 3364 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # And TeXciting might never be released, quoting Hendri - the author of ha-prosper: | I have reconsidered whether it will be possible | to finish this project. Taking into account also | the work that I'm doing on other packages and | my involvement in LaTeX3, I conclude that it will | unfortunately be very unlikely, that I will ever | finish that project. See his posting on ha-prosper-mailinglist for more details: http://listserv.surfnet.nl/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0503&L=ha-prosper&F=&S=&P=777 So in my opinion it would be useful to provide a debian package of ha-prosper. regards, -mika- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
