Re: [PATCH] git-latexdiff: new command in contrib, to use latexdiff and Git

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2012, 09:05 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <vpqy5rxsxb3.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> There is CTAN: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (http://ctan.org),
>> which hosts tools such like latexmk (cousin of the general make
>> utility), autolatex (generates Makefile), chktex, ite (interactive TeX
>> editor),... latexdiff itself is also there.
>
> It's not really the same thing: AFAIK, ctan is a good place to
> distribute things, but not to develop them (i.e. I don't see revision
> control or developpers mailing-lists there, which were the two
> motivations for pushing git-latexdiff in git.git).

Oh, don't get me wrong.

It's just that I agree with Jakub that a better final destination for it is CTAN next to latexdiff, not in git.git/contrib/, and when we last did something similar for emacs vc mode support, the copy I carried ended up becoming way stale than its final destination, and we had to remove our copy in order to reduce confusion. I just do not want to make the same mistake here.

I didn't intend to discourage discusson of your application here.

Carry on the discussion in a forum where you think the most people with appropriate skills and interests hang out, and if that forum is this list, that is perfectly fine. Host a development repository at GitHub, Gitorious or somesuch, if it would help people stay in sync with the current status to have a public repository.

I just do not think my tree is a good place to use as a "while we are developing" staging area.