Re: Making docdir configurable
Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] writes:
In the new framework I envision, it would probably be easier
to optionally keep some sort of central-file database in synch
with the actual package layout which in turn would save us a
lot of stats. I know I won't be the one to implement it.
the same approach is held by different TeX distributions, using
the kpathsea library:
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[...] The library's fundamental purpose is to return a filename
from a list of directories specified by the user, similar to what
shells do when looking up program names to execute.
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