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From:         Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: bibtex futures: url, doi, ?
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On 06/05/2018 12:17, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Juergen points out that changing bibtex mind break things. I'd like to ask,
> is this the right place for the present discussion?
> 
> According to https://www.latex-project.org/latex3/code/, the present list
> "is intended solely for discussing ideas and concepts for future versions
> of LaTeX".
> 
> According to http://tug.org/bibtex/, the mailing list for [bibtex] bugs and
> discussion is at http://tug.org/pipermail/biblio/
> 
> There are github repositories for biber and biblatex.
> https://github.com/plk/biblatex
> https://github.com/plk/biber
> 
> I think putting the current source for bibtex up on github would be a good
> first step for Oren being able to do the right thing for bibtex. And it
> might provide a better place for carrying out the present discussion.

In terms of the source code for the BibTeX binary, the TeX Live SVN 
sources area (which acts as a 'home' for a number of programs) is 
available in a mirrored form on GitHub: 
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source. Notably, that allows one to 
fiddle about with sources and see if they still build: it's set up for 
CI testing. Of course, the current discussion is likely not at the level 
of detailed code changes.

(Some of the discussion here applies to the standard .bst files: those 
are I think simply in [texmf]/bibtex/bst/base, so again in the TL SVN 
but the 'Master' part, which is too big for GitHub.)

Joseph