On Oct 19, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Chris Travers wrote: > ... > I think "stable" in terms of "you can safely use this to render your > documents" and "stable" in terms of "no unnecessary changed so we know > the software using this clearly and predictably works every time" are > different senses of the word "stable." I need the latter once the > software is installed, you are talking the former. > > The point is that changing upgrading software underneath fairly > critical systems just because there is a newer version out with bug > fixes that don't affect you will *always* cause more harm than good. > > Best wishes, > Chris Travers
Howdy, Of course there is another sense of ``stable'': we're not going to change anything even if it doesn't work and has bugs because it's better to know your enemy than to find an ew enemy or friend. I don't think packages in updated TeX Live installations are changed arbitrarily but rather in response to bug fixes that others, and possibly not all users, have observed. A TeX Distribution is a very complicated organism. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
