Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:26:55 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n757QsfK025919 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:26:55 +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 n757NQEb003860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:23:27 +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 n74M1Qnh007784; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:23:21 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 285425 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:23:21 +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 n757NL2A017479 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:23:21 +0200 Received: from ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk (ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.184]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n757NBNG028977 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:23:15 +0200 Received: from ueams02.uea.ac.uk (ueams02.uea.ac.uk [139.222.131.131]) by ueamailgate01.uea.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n757NBa1013820 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:23:11 +0100 Received: from [139.222.114.191] by ueams02.uea.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MYaq2-0001NF-QR for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:23:06 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4A781594.8060202@elzevir.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Canit-CHI2: 0.00 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN, outgoing) X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:outgoing (inherits from UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 27511394 - 6abb4ea315da X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 213.139.130.197 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.184 Message-ID: <4A79335F.6070302@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:23:11 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: using expl3 for latex2e packages To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <4A781594.8060202@elzevir.fr> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -6.599 () BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2009 07:26:55.0668 (UTC) FILETIME=[1C437740:01CA159E] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5817 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: > L3news02 states that "The expl3 code is now considered to be much more > stable than it was before". expl3.pdf (section 6 "the *experimental* > distribution") says "the interface will change". OTOH, source3 states that "The > syntax conventions and functions provided are now ready for wider use." Who's > right between expl3 and source3? (I assume source3, but...) Right, expl3 and source3 now agree, and I've tidied up the module list in expl3 to include only those that are stable. (Note to rest of team: I hope everyone else agrees with me on this!). I'll do a bit of reading later, then probably send a snapshot to CTAN. -- Joseph Wright