\usetikzlibrary{cd} about tikz-cd HOT 4 CLOSED

Several years ago I asked the pgf/tikz authors about this, and their preference was to keep extensions by third parties separate from the main distribution. I'm still open to making tikz-cd a builtin library, in case they changed their minds.

from tikz-cd.

Right now I am the PGF/TikZ maintainer, which is why I'm asking. However, having tikz-cd as part of the official distribution has the clear downside for you that you are bound to the irregular and long release cycle.

from tikz-cd.

I see! The long and irregular release cycle is not an issue, since tikz-cd is pretty stable by now.

There are a couple things to be discussed before integrating into the main distribution. Most importantly: where should each of the things described in §4 of the tikz-cd manual move?

The shape and the two pgfmath functions are of independent interest. The Glyph arrow tips are a useful hack, but don't always work perfectly. I'm not sure what to do about it.

from tikz-cd.

I reconsidered this and it is probably best to leave this outside of the mainline repo, although I am thinking about providing a unified API to register tikzpicture wrappers like the tikzcd environment.

from tikz-cd.