MiKTeX 2.5 development has started

by CSchenk9. April 2005 00:48

MiKTeX 2.5 developmet has started in December. According to the roadmap, the first step is to redesign the internal interfaces (aka refactoring). The outcome will be a portable set of components. Portable in the sense that it will be easy to build the components for other systems.

I am currently working on the core component (MiKTeX-core*.dll). The core component handles

  • file searching
  • running secondary processes
  • reading configuration files

System-dependent features in this area are:

  • reading directories
  • reading/writing memory-mapped files
  • threads

There are well known design patterns which help to separate system-dependent code. Implementing these design patterns is an interesting job which will keep me busy the next few months.

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Christopher C
Christopher C
5/9/2005 7:49:25 PM #

Hi Christian.  When would MiKTeX 2.5/3.0 be rolled out?  I assumed it has been delayed.

CSchenk
CSchenk
5/10/2005 2:58:17 AM #

MiKTeX 2.5 will be released this year. Some time in the second half.
MiKTeX 3.0 will be released a few weeks later.
          

Christopher C
Christopher C
5/10/2005 11:25:52 PM #

Hi Christian.  Why not just scrap MiKTeX 2.5 and just bring out version 3.0 since they are released few weeks apart from each other?

CSchenk
CSchenk
5/11/2005 10:00:21 AM #

Skipping version 2.5 is an option. For the moment it's the name of the development branch. If I have something in August (or so), I will release it as version 2.5.

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