On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Chris Travers <[email protected]> wrote: >> Users also don't like to discover that the publishers' LaTeX format they >> need won't work with the distro TeX, or that a document that formats >> correctly >> on a co-author's Mac or Windows system won't format on their linux system. >> The TeX ecosystem needs some reasonable limits on how long old versions >> should be supported. If users can't get adequate support from their >> distro there >> are better supported alternatives. >> > Given that server software that I work with usually has at least a > five year support cycle, what are those reasonable limits?
Five years seems to be a common support period. If you sell a distro with 5-year support then you should know that some packages you provide will "expire" before the 5 years is up and be prepared to provide updates. > Or is XeTeX not intended to be used in these environments? The 5 year limit is in LaTeX, not xetex. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
