Hi, I've been using a recent cvs version of pgf/tikz for a while because 
it has some useful additions to text formatting in nodes.  This is 
especially useful for another package that I use a lot (tikz-qtree).  
Will that version be included in TL 2010?  From the looks of the pgf 
sourceforge site, versions don't change very quickly.

Although maintaining a personal version of pgf isn't a problem for me, 
it's not great to tell beginners that they need to do that, so it would 
be nice if a more updated version of pgf will be included in TL 2010.

Does anyone here know, or should I ask the question elsewhere?

Thanks

Alan

Alan Munn wrote:
> Hi, I've been using a recent cvs version of pgf/tikz for a while because 
> it has some useful additions to text formatting in nodes.  This is 
> especially useful for another package that I use a lot (tikz-qtree).  
> Will that version be included in TL 2010?  From the looks of the pgf 
> sourceforge site, versions don't change very quickly.
> 
> Although maintaining a personal version of pgf isn't a problem for me, 
> it's not great to tell beginners that they need to do that, so it would 
> be nice if a more updated version of pgf will be included in TL 2010.
> 
> Does anyone here know, or should I ask the question elsewhere?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alan

as far as I know they will use the version of CTAN

you might want to ask the pgf people to do more releases.

/daleif

Lars Madsen <daleif@imf.au.dk> writes:

> Alan Munn wrote:
>> Hi, I've been using a recent cvs version of pgf/tikz for a while
>> because it has some useful additions to text formatting in nodes.
>> This is especially useful for another package that I use a lot
>> (tikz-qtree).  Will that version be included in TL 2010?  From the
>> looks of the pgf sourceforge site, versions don't change very
>> quickly.
>>
>> Although maintaining a personal version of pgf isn't a problem for
>> me, it's not great to tell beginners that they need to do that, so
>> it would be nice if a more updated version of pgf will be included
>> in TL 2010.
>>
>> Does anyone here know, or should I ask the question elsewhere?
>
> as far as I know they will use the version of CTAN

my understanding, too.  it's not changed for some time.

> you might want to ask the pgf people to do more releases.

of course, uploading a new version now wouldn't help.  tl 2010 is well
and truly frozen until the point of release.
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge

In article <qfpqy6tsik.fsf@sxp10.cl.cam.ac.uk>,
 Robin Fairbairns <rf10@sxp10.cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Lars Madsen <daleif@imf.au.dk> writes:
> 
> > Alan Munn wrote:
> >> Hi, I've been using a recent cvs version of pgf/tikz for a while
> >> because it has some useful additions to text formatting in nodes.
> >> This is especially useful for another package that I use a lot
> >> (tikz-qtree).  Will that version be included in TL 2010?  From the
> >> looks of the pgf sourceforge site, versions don't change very
> >> quickly.
> >>
> >> Although maintaining a personal version of pgf isn't a problem for
> >> me, it's not great to tell beginners that they need to do that, so
> >> it would be nice if a more updated version of pgf will be included
> >> in TL 2010.
> >>
> >> Does anyone here know, or should I ask the question elsewhere?
> >
> > as far as I know they will use the version of CTAN
> 
> my understanding, too.  it's not changed for some time.
> 
> > you might want to ask the pgf people to do more releases.
> 
> of course, uploading a new version now wouldn't help.  tl 2010 is well
> and truly frozen until the point of release.

Thanks, Robin and Lars.  Putting  newer version on CTAN would still help 
since it would be updatable by the update manager.

Alan

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:24:50 -0400, Alan Munn <amunn@msu.edu> wrote:

>In article <qfpqy6tsik.fsf@sxp10.cl.cam.ac.uk>,
> Robin Fairbairns <rf10@sxp10.cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Lars Madsen <daleif@imf.au.dk> writes:
>> 
>> > Alan Munn wrote:
>> >> Hi, I've been using a recent cvs version of pgf/tikz for a while
>> >> because it has some useful additions to text formatting in nodes.
>> >> This is especially useful for another package that I use a lot
>> >> (tikz-qtree).  Will that version be included in TL 2010?  From the
>> >> looks of the pgf sourceforge site, versions don't change very
>> >> quickly.
>> >>
>> >> Although maintaining a personal version of pgf isn't a problem for
>> >> me, it's not great to tell beginners that they need to do that, so
>> >> it would be nice if a more updated version of pgf will be included
>> >> in TL 2010.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone here know, or should I ask the question elsewhere?
>> >
>> > as far as I know they will use the version of CTAN
>> 
>> my understanding, too.  it's not changed for some time.
>> 
>> > you might want to ask the pgf people to do more releases.
>> 
>> of course, uploading a new version now wouldn't help.  tl 2010 is well
>> and truly frozen until the point of release.
>
>Thanks, Robin and Lars.  Putting  newer version on CTAN would still help 
>since it would be updatable by the update manager.

If you mean the TeX Live Update Manager, tlmgr, then that 
will not update anything until TL is unfrozen. 

Being on CTAN means a package will eventually get into 
TL updates, but it must first be repackaged for TL. The 
freeze means that this will not occur until the release
takes place.


Dan
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