Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Upcoming release

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-12-15) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Then decoupling the version numbers of the preview package and
>>> AUCTeX/preview-latex might really make sense in the long run.
>>
>> I don't think so.  Particularly with -without-texmf-dir a version of
>> preview.sty that is intimately connected with AUCTeX gets installed
>> into the Emacs tree.  I don't think it makes sense giving different
>> version numbers to this integrated version from the encompassing
>> AUCTeX, or from external preview versions.
>
> But isn't this just a cosmetic issue?  I wouldn't mind if it did not
> cause unnecessary work for us and the people at CTAN by forcing us to
> upload a new version every time a new AUCTeX release is done even if
> nothing in the preview package changed.

Do what you consider appropriate.  It is just my gut feeling that it
would probably cause more headaches downstream than we are saving
upstream.  Maybe I am wrong.  If not releasing preview.sty turns out
to confuse people, we still can do it differently next time.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum