Bug 923669

Summary:	Review Request: tex-prerex-bin - Interactive editor for prerequisite charts
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jindrich Novy 2013-03-20 10:04:31 UTC

Spec URL: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/tex-prerex-bin.spec
SRPM URL: http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/tex-prerex-bin-6.5.1-2.fc18.src.rpm
Description: Prerex is an interactive program for editing prerequisite-chart
descriptions in the prerex format. The user does not normally have to be
familiar with details of the format. The editor supports add, remove,
cut-and-paste, and edit operations on diagram elements, and shifts of a
list of specified elements, all the elements in a rectangular region, or
the entire diagram. The edited diagram may be saved, re-processed, and
viewed in a PDF viewer, without exiting the editor.
For a graphical front-end and viewer for use with the prerex editor,
install the vprerex package.
Fedora Account System Username: jnovy

Comment 2 Thomas Spura 2015-01-29 22:09:16 UTC

The link to the source seems to have changed. This seems to work with the new version:
http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/prerex/doc/prerex-%version.tar.gz

The buildroot seems odd. Do you still need it? IIRC, we had a different set of allowed buildroot tags such as %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release} and not _topdir.

Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2019-11-20 11:25:01 UTC

Not sure we need this package any longer.

Comment 4 Bob Tennent 2019-11-21 08:10:47 UTC

"any longer"?  After six years of doing nothing, you're asking whether "we" need this package? Who exactly is "we"? 

The prerex editor is used with the prerex package that's distributed at CTAN.  It's included in the prerex package in TeXLive but only as a tarball because it uses readline and they're not willing to include that library in TeXLive. Apart from that, the prerex editor is a straightforward C program. It's still maintained.  I recently extended its capabilities as a result of a user report.

Comment 5 Jindrich Novy 2019-11-21 08:19:07 UTC

Don't have time getting involved in this, sorry. Please submit a new review request if you believe it makes sense.