On 19.12.09 Taco Hoekwater (t...@elvenkind.com) wrote:
Norbert Preining wrote:
Dear Taco,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441595#47
And the advantage for you is that there are less changes if you
incorporate new versions of upstream libraries.
But that is certainly true.
Hi Hilmar,
On 11/28/2010 01:54 PM, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
luafilesystem: that local patch will go away soon (it is possible
to slide the new functions in elsewhere, where they are not
interfering with the upstream).
The patch is still in the lualib used by luatex. Did you made already
On 28.11.10 Taco Hoekwater (t...@elvenkind.com) wrote:
On 11/28/2010 01:54 PM, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi,
luafilesystem: that local patch will go away soon (it is possible
to slide the new functions in elsewhere, where they are not
interfering with the upstream).
The patch is still
Norbert Preining wrote:
Dear Taco,
one of the lua Gurus here at Debian checked the embedded libs and found
that most of the included libs are very similar to upstream, and he
offered to push the few changes in your code to upstream.
What do you say? (See attached email, including the diffs
On Sa, 19 Dez 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
But what happens then? Luatex becomes dependent on an external library
that may or may not be distributed by debian (or anyone else)?
No, only that as long as the libraries in texlua are the same as upstream
I can reuse the the packages in Debian.
And
Norbert Preining wrote:
On Sa, 19 Dez 2009, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
But what happens then? Luatex becomes dependent on an external library
that may or may not be distributed by debian (or anyone else)?
No, only that as long as the libraries in texlua are the same as upstream
I can reuse the the
2009/12/19 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl:
what does that mean in practice for your tex live installer? that it has to
fetch (and compile) extra libs?
Debian: Dynamic libs.
TeXlive: Mostly static binaries.
Best
Martin
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Norbert Preining wrote:
Dear Taco,
one of the lua Gurus here at Debian checked the embedded libs and found
that most of the included libs are very similar to upstream, and he
offered to push the few changes in your code to upstream.
What do you say? (See attached email, including the diffs
Martin Schröder wrote:
2009/12/19 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl:
what does that mean in practice for your tex live installer? that it has to
fetch (and compile) extra libs?
Debian: Dynamic libs.
TeXlive: Mostly static binaries.
yes but how does it check if the libs are functionally the same?
Hi Norbert
No, only that as long as the libraries in texlua are the same as upstream
I can reuse the the packages in Debian.
what does that mean in practice for your tex live installer? that it has
to fetch (and compile) extra libs?
Hans
2009/12/19 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl:
yes but how does it check if the libs are functionally the same?
APIs are versioned and checked by the loader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_library#Dynamic_linking
It works. Mostly.
Best
Martin
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
sure, but i wonder what this means for the texlive updater ... will
it also ship upgraded (or ancient) library versions then?
We are talking only about the Debian packages here. The TeX Live
(upstream, main) will NOT change to dynamic libs, sure not!!!
Martin Schröder wrote:
2009/12/19 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl:
yes but how does it check if the libs are functionally the same?
APIs are versioned and checked by the loader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_library#Dynamic_linking
It works. Mostly.
sure, but i wonder what this means for
Hi Hans,
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
Debian: Dynamic libs.
TeXlive: Mostly static binaries.
yes but how does it check if the libs are functionally the same?
md5sum of the source code.
Please do NOT care for what we are doing in Debian, that is our business
and I will care for
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