Re: a new lilypond build failure

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

>> Ok; they were once used for processing the texinfo docs, right?
>
> They are still used for producing the PDF documentatation, so there is
> still a build dependency on tetex.  Also, tetex is great for making
> documents with lilypond snippets, but this does not make tetex a
> dependency (now that we dropped it).

Ah, yes, we get that from mftrace anyway, since mftrace depends on
tetex-bin in Debian. :)

>> You say that the TeX backend is no longer supported (!).  Why is this?
>
> TeX used to be our easy way out to produce output.  In the 2.5 series,
> we managed to use pango to make the half-baken PS backend fully
> operational.
>
> Supporting tex output is a lot of work, and it probably has just one user.

I used to use it a lot.  Ah well. :)

Thomas