i was innocently eating my lunch, and the daemon said:
The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: ifetex Author's name: Martin Scharrer Package version: v1.0 Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/ifetex/ Summary description: Provides ifetex switch. License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
This small package provides the if-switch ifetex which indicated whether e-TeX is available or not.
The package can be loaded as LaTeX package using `usepackage{ifetex}` or in plainTeX using `input ifetex`. In both cases it aborts silently if the ifetex macro is already defined.
The package currently test if eTeXversion is defined as a primitive and assumes e-TeX if so.
thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the catalogue repository.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ifetex.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ifetex/
The catalogue entry will first appear on the web (some time) overnight tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team