- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Comparing versions of TeXmacs
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:08:15 +0100
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 05:33:05PM +0000, Robert Lamar wrote:
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Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
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>Dear Robert,
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>On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:50:56PM +0000, Robert Lamar wrote:
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>>Upon a recent upgrade between versions of Fedora, a TeXmacs plugin
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>>developed by my group stopped functioning properly. The upgrade brought
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>>TeXmacs from version 1.0.6.7 to 1.0.6.12. In trying to isolate the
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>>problem, I would like to compare the different versions of TeXmacs on
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>>the same machine.
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>>Is there anywhere, aside of CVS, that these incremental versions are
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>>made available? Hopefully as binaries, but possibly as source?
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>Sure, they are in the archives on our FTP server, either in
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> ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/pub/TeXmacs/targz/
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Thanks, Javier and Joris for promptly pointing me to this. It is
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exactly what I hoped for!
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I seem to have found the problem: the plugin I am working on uses
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`path-assign', which was deprecated and removed at revision 1.18,
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between versions 1.0.6.10 and 1.0.6.12. What exactly did path-assign
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do? What sort of construct might replace it?
The more robust tree-assign replaces it: instead of maintaining
positions by hand, you can now directly select the tree you want
to change and use tree-assign.
However, the change will probably require some work for you ;^(
I recommend to search for the pattern "path-" in your sources.
You should also read
Help -> Scheme extensions
and more particularly
Help -> Scheme extensions -> Programming routines for editing
documents
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>Finally, whenever possible, I recommend to make plug-ins
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>for TeXmacs public whenever possible. In case of silly changes
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>in conventions (a name change, for instance), this allows me
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>to automatically make the corresponding updates,
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>or at least acknowledge you about possible problems.
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In general, I agree that this is a good plan. But in our case we are
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implementing an active research project, and do not feel ready to make
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it generally accessible.
OK, good luck then!
Best wishes, Joris
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