> > I think it is extremely useful to have the TeXIndex of Jones updated. > > But I am not sure that the texlive key, with the contents described > > above, is a good idea? > > David Jones hasn't got the time/inclination/something or other. I > asked him some while back, and he said he was quite happy for the file > to be zapped from the archives. I had forgotten to do that, and have > just moved it to obsolete/help Well, I was not asking indirectly to David Jones to update his file, I had understood from "@TeXIndex" in Sebastian's message: >Are you all familar with Graham Williams catalogue? in many ways, he >has already laid the foundation for what we are talking about, with >a BiBTeX database looking like this: > >@TeXIndex{akletter, that Graham's work was an update of Jones' in BibTeX form. OK if it is incorrect. > The reason the texlive key is there is that the file is also used (as > a BibTeX file, no less!) in preparing the TeX Live documentation. The > key doesn't appear in the other derived format, CTAN > help/Catalogue/ctfull.html OK, that sounds reasonable to me > Give an opinion if you want to classify, don't if you don't. Don't > try to classify without giving any opinion: that way lies madness... Sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean ? > No-one's talked about billions of users yet, have they? There are > only 100 million PCs (or something) in the world! Sorry, 20 millions, not billions of course. > In my view, a project to construct a test suite for every package on > CTAN is doomed to failure. (For some reason, my fingers kept wanting > to type `dodo' where I meant `doomed' ;-) My proposal was not to construct a test suite for every package. It was: IF somebody is able to give an opinion on one given package, then he has written a test file (otherwise, could he have any opinion?). So, instead of giving an opinion, rather provide the test file. Or, if he is enthusiast about it, maybe a demo file that illustrates some useful aspects of the package? Michel Lavaud ([log in to unmask])