Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:13:34 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8I8DTll015637 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:13:29 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8I89vEY003261 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:09:57 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8HM1htL005980; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:09:56 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 43436 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:09:56 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8I89ufD013352 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:09:56 +0200 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.241]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8I89gR4007576 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:09:46 +0200 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c5so3520065rvf.10 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.164.1 with SMTP id m1mr7229180rve.69.1221725382206; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:09:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.167.13 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:09:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48D0AF89.2010704@morningstar2.co.uk> <27990a880809170102x3a452c6elc237b94cf964687b@mail.gmail.com> <48D0FF21.8080101@morningstar2.co.uk> <48D12C65.2070908@morningstar2.co.uk> <27990a880809172307je4e62e0p2f6a9fe097ac360e@mail.gmail.com> <48D202BE.6010908@morningstar2.co.uk> <27990a880809180049p32a9f9c9x52612fa9a3b4d3a7@mail.gmail.com> <48D20AD7.3090909@morningstar2.co.uk> Message-ID: <27990a880809180109i362c84f3p5599a9ea2cfe5659@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:39:42 +0930 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Will Robertson Subject: Re: Array and amstext To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <48D20AD7.3090909@morningstar2.co.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Sep 2008 08:13:34.0375 (UTC) FILETIME=[71D28370:01C91966] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5348 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Joseph Wright wrote: > At least for the kernel and associated tools, everything is in a version > control system. So it is not really that hard to get hold of a given > version if one needs to. The problem of versions mainly applies to > other packages, and that is very much down to the package authors (as > was discussed at length on c.t.t recently). Indeed. I was thinking of something a little more organised, which would obviously involve CTAN & TeXLive keeping old versions in their repository as well. (Which I think they've discussed in the past.) Erm, so in conclusion: nothing that is going to happen any time soon! W