TeX-LIVE bug reports

[Fabrice Popineau]

* Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie> writes:

>> Yes, you can starting with TL5. Except that I won't say anything
>> about Win9x and tools other than the various engines.

> Excellent...but I agree this should not be recommended.

There was definitely a bug in kpathsea preventing this to work under
W9x. I still need to test against it in case there are other traps. 

But let me explain my intended layout :

D:\marc>dir d:\Local
 Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is ECE6-7035

 Directory of d:\Local

20/06/2000  10:38       <DIR>          .
20/06/2000  10:38       <DIR>          ..
01/05/2000  16:46       <DIR>          Gnu
13/04/2000  10:02       <DIR>          GsTools
13/04/2000  09:58       <DIR>          ImageMagick
13/04/2000  09:58       <DIR>          Mayura
31/05/2000  13:40       <DIR>          NetPBM
10/04/2000  11:05       <DIR>          NTEmacs
01/05/2000  16:32       <DIR>          Perl
20/06/2000  10:38       <DIR>          Tcl
29/06/2000  10:40       <DIR>          TeXLive
24/08/1999  01:20       <DIR>          WinCvs
25/05/2000  10:16       <DIR>          XEmacs

Everything is in d:\Local because none of these apps are 'true'
windows app, even if some do behave quite well.

So, now imagine all this stuff mixed inside this one :

 Directory of c:\program files

21/06/2000  23:23       <DIR>          .
21/06/2000  23:23       <DIR>          ..
23/08/1999  18:06       <DIR>          Accessories
18/05/2000  23:38       <DIR>          Adobe
07/02/2000  21:15       <DIR>          Amaya
28/06/2000  23:34       <DIR>          Common Files
23/08/1999  17:56       <DIR>          ComPlus Applications
...
08/02/2000  16:50       <DIR>          IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser
23/06/2000  13:52       <DIR>          Internet Explorer
07/12/1999  20:42       <DIR>          Microsoft FrontPage
28/06/2000  23:33       <DIR>          Microsoft Office
18/03/2000  01:50       <DIR>          Microsoft Platform SDK
25/08/1999  16:45       <DIR>          Microsoft Script Debugger
30/11/1999  12:58       <DIR>          Microsoft Visual Studio
07/05/2000  01:04       <DIR>          Windows Media Player
...
23/02/2000  16:57       <DIR>          Windows NT
25/06/2000  23:14       <DIR>          WindowsUpdate
06/04/2000  14:29       <DIR>          WinEdt
15/06/2000  09:03       <DIR>          WinShell
04/10/1999  16:05       <DIR>          WinZip
21/06/2000  23:23       <DIR>          XML Notepad

I wonder if it is a good idea. You can notice that most of the directories in
d:\Local need to be cited in your PATH, but none of "c:\Program Files".

Any opinions ?

Fabrice