Taco Hoekwater
Martin Schröder wrote:
a) Aleph can be considered abandoned as long as nobody hears of Giuseppe. Is there a publicly accessible SCM, or is the last tarball all that is there?
Not that I know of. Giuseppe is probably using luaTeX. :-)
Last I heard from Giuseppe, he has no intention of working on Aleph any more. fwiw, the current TeXlive sources are leading (rc4).
I have about a dozen or so Aleph bugfixes in luatex that *should* be backported, but I am not in the least interested in doing that, as it seems nobody really cares about Aleph any more anyway.
If nobody cares about Aleph anymore, we should probably remove it from TeXlive altogether. Same for Omega/Lambda/Lamed/Ctulhu (or what the Aleph version of ConTeXt was called). If someone complains during the TeXlive2008 beta phase, one can still ponder resurrecting them. I am not actually sure that no _users_ care about those, however, even though it is pretty clear that the developers have more or less gone. -- David Kastrup