ChangeLog

2024-11-22: Version 2024A

This release mainly focuses on helping package writers to install a minimal TeXLive distribution with all package dependencies resolved, which is useful for them to run regression tests with GitHub Actions.

• use default extension .sty in -f option
• add -p option for querying all files in a package
• add -i option for reading arguments from a file
• add -o option for writing dependent list to a file
• record and print full dependent list of packages
• sort package lists before printing them
• avoid putting texfindpkg.json.gz in scripts folder (#6)
• ignore commands from package options (#7)
• give better message when all are installed (#10)

2023-05-05: Version 2023E

• use -f base.ext to query or install package file base.ext
• use -c cmdname to query or install command \cmdname
• use -e envname to query or install environment {envname}
• accept multiple names in query and install actions
• return multiple matches in query and install actions (#5)
• move comapre and generate actions to tfpbuild.lua
• add check and save actions to tfpbuild.lua
• print dependency tree for package files
• remove duplicate packages in the output
• exclude installed packages in the output (#3)
• store builtin commands and environmens first in json data
• remove keys with empty values in generating json data
• ignore optex.cwl in generating json data
• fix wrong json data for class files
• fix wrong json data for tikz and tcolorbox libraries

2023-04-05: Version 2023D

• change tool name to texfindpkg
• provide query action for querying packages (#1)
• provide --help and --version options
• add sudo prefix in installing packages on Linux and MacOS (#2)
• add a simple man page texfindpkg.1
• add workflow files in github actions

2023-04-02: Version 2023C

• first public release as findpkg tool
• provide install action for installing packages