Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> What we actually need, and that is the same for TeX Live and for all
>> distributions (at least inmy imagination), is:
>>
>> - one (or several) system wide luatex cache thingies
>> - one per user (if the user wants to)
>> - a way to update the cache for specific trees only
>> (luatools --system-only ...)
>> - and the adaption of the lua functions that the different caches are
>> merged at loading time, the later (user) taking precedence over the
>> former.
>>
>> That would already be some big step forward.
>>
>>> come on, we do care, but it's a moving train ...
>> ;-) Let me sometimes get rid of some frustration .... ;-))) It does not
>> happen often anyway.
>
> I really wonder how (if at all) LuaTeX is going to work on MikTeX ...
> :) ConTeXt is broken there already, and ConTeXt is the only tool that
> really benefits from LuaTeX (apart from some of your tools on TL). The
> new search capabilities are likely to break the MikTeX's auto-install
> functionality as well if nobody will push Hans to fix it (or implement
> it himself).
mixtex is another issue mostly because it uses a diferent approach; we
had it working so at some point it will work again; probably not soon
for luatex/mkiv but that's experimental anyway
i simply have no capacity to run everything here (e.g. in order to set
up a proper windows vm for testing i need additional windows licences
which i don't have
Hans
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