>> Another question: what part of the LuaTeX chain is responsible for   
>> locating the configuration files? Is it the scripts mtxrun.lua and   
>> luatools.lua or the binary texlua itself? You mentioned something   
>> about luatools only but now that Hans uploaded the entire beta ...
>
> this is done in the lua code and taco and i spent quit esome time  
> experimenting with this; our filosophy is to hard code as less as  
> possible and let lud du the work unless this is not possible; here  
> we have a border case with these symlinks; an option would to add  
> functions that provide info about the symlink, but then, we don;t  
> wan tto add too many functions to the core; hoever in this case it  
> may be that we need to let the binary provide info about the path  
> where the binary resides (also because it may be a bit playform  
> depedent)

Who's "lud"?

> (btw, the lua code is in luat-inp but merged into mtxrun and  
> luatools so that these scripts can operate independent of libraries,  
> because otherwise we can have another chicken or egg problem)

Good to know ...

> at some point part of the interface in luat-inp will be public i.e.  
> users can use it themselves, but first i need to clean up that code

Sure :-)

Oliver

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