Re: Splitting off Feta

[Ferenc Wagner]

Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:

> One issue that comes to my mind is how to make the fonts
> and TeX header files available to teTeX. So far, we have
> done it by setting up a separate texmf/ tree with all
> these files and adding it to the teTeX search tree by
> setting TEXMF. If we split into separate distributions, we
> would have to take care of two separate texmf/ file trees
> (at least with the current naming convention with the
> release number in the directory name). Even though we can
> just duplicate the current solution, I can still think of
> several problems.

I would be grateful if you could outline them.

> Also, one version of the fonts mostly works together with
> some other version of LilyPond, but I can think of several
> occasions where an update involved changes to both the
> program and the fonts so both had to be updated together.

Yes, recently I've started to have the impression that the
fonts are less frequently updated, and most updates are not
related to the code at all.  That was one of my motives to
bring up this issue.  I may have been mistaken on this.
-- 
Feri.