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

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

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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.