On 2021-09-01 06:18, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
Shipping a newer version with missing support for print output was a
functionality regression (within the context of the self-contained
Debian archive) that is, in my opinion, in no way appropriate for
Bullseye (Debian 11)--ditto for this year's Ubuntu LTS; It took me
longer than expected to find my notes on this! Now that the two have
been released, and we're beginning a new cycle, I agree that now is the
time to ship a newer, more polished, yet with reduced functionality
version.
This is a mischaracterisation. The package never had print output. It
could interface with an external tool directly for export, or it could
convert Fountain to LaTeX, badly. But users still needed a full TeXLive
installation and to interface with this (external tool) to create a PDF.
A PDF created via LaTeX was always inferior to one created using an
external tool directly.
The method of export to PDF was always via external tool, which has been
improved in more recent versions.
But first, I'm going to file an RFP for Wrap, a Golang alternative to
Afterwriting that has a much more reasonable and manageable dependency
tree, and which I believe is a better fit for Debian due to its support
for non-English languages--it's been taking me far too long to get up
to
speed with Golang packaging. Sorry about that. I also need to
apologise to Wrap's maintainer for missing that deadline :-$
Tying Fountain Mode to either Afterwriting or Wrap is not appropriate.
It is designed to allow the user choice in which export tools (possibly
multiple) to use. For example, I use Makefiles.
