On 2003-01-06 18:46:52 +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote:
> nobody hinders you to do that right now: you could in a package
> check if eTeX is there and if not print out a rude message and exit. that is
> what Martin called "etex aware" i guess. but it is slighly different from

No. :-)

The trace package is eTeX aware: It offers additional
functionality when used with eTeX. People need a reason to switch
to eTeX but (and probably much more important) their old
documents must still compile.

> reservations for the reasons outlined above. but then encouraging people to
> provide packages that use eTeX features might be a first step in this
> direction.

Yes.

Best regards
    Martin
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