2012/5/4 Apostolos Syropoulos <asyropou...@yahoo.com>: >> >> Telling other people what they should maintain and what they *must* abandon >> feels very arrogant. Why should a certain A.S. decide what is worth the >> effort >> and what is not? >> > > Arrogant in what way? Have you ever tried to compile the TeX tree? In many > cases people have to invent stupid patches just to support an almost
Don't you feel yourself in a loop? If they patch it, they apparently want to use it and if they want to use it, it is not useless for them because if it were useless, they would not use it and thus they would have no reason to patch it. > useless program in a modern computing environment. As about the rest, I > will not make any comment. > If the modern computer environment does not offer important features that were implemented in the old environment decades and still work, than (at least for me) it is natural to use the old environment. > A.S. > > > ---------------------- > Apostolos Syropoulos > Xanthi, Greece > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
