[EXT] Re: `nahuatl` package not in TeX Live

[Philip Taylor (Royal Holloway)]

On 20/12/2021 15:06, Don Hosek wrote:


It’s the duplication of names. This is an old problem: TeX and friends effectively have their files living in a flat namespace¹ so every TeX file in TeX live needs to be uniquely named and similarly every MF file needs to be uniquely named.
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1. It’s worth noting that at the time of TeX’s creation and well into the 80s some common operating systems did not even have a mechanism for subdirectories of any kind. PC-DOS first gained subdirectories with version 2.0 in 1983 and VM/CMS never supported them (files were kept in virtual disks and the OS would respond to a request for U MF by starting with disk A (the user disk) and going through all the disks in alphabetical order up to Z until it found the file).


Wow !  Thank you Don.
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Philip Taylor


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