2007/2/21, Staszek Wawrykiewicz <staw@gust.org.pl>:
As we hopefully received some opinions from our Japanese friends, I still believe that we can find some good solution. But I'm afraid, it will take some time to propagate and change all existing distibutions (teTeX, MiKTeX, fpTeX, TeX Live, as well as users' accustoms, etc.). As I see, the consequence for the distributions would be also changing Polish "platex" (also in directory names!) to something different, say, pollatex (it is, e.g., important to the TeXLive's packaging concept!, not to mention CTAN and Catalogue)
fpTEX and teTeX a are dead. I don't know about MikTeX, but I'm sure there won't be problems with TeX Live adopting it. After all, it's TeX Live developer who pointed out this issue.
All in all, I think that Polish "platex" would follow all the above just to meet and welcome Japanese needs.
We are making progress here! It's good to see someone willing to cooperate.
Kind regards, -- Staszek Wawrykiewicz StaW@gust.org.pl
-- Vedran Miletić Student at Math Department, University of Rijeka