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Jonathan Fine <[log in to unmask]>
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Joseph pointed out: https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source.

It's good that TeX-Live is using github. I'm particularly pleased by
https://travis-ci.org/TeX-Live/texlive-source. I don't recall seeing this
before - a recent addition?

However, as Joseph points out, perhaps not a suitable place for the present
discussion.


On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Joseph Wright <
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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
>


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