Oliver Buerschaper wrote:

Dear all,

here's a thing that's puzzling me ... I set up the cache path in texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua to point to a location which doesn't exist yet. Running

luatools --generate

now gives me different results with ConTeXt versions 2009.06.11 and 2009.06.13. The former one politely asks me whether it should generate the cache path while the latter version does not but moves straight on to business. Grepping through the source code I'm somehow unable to find out which part of the source is responsible for this change :-(

Personally, I prefer the second behaviour anyway. This is because I adjusted texmfcnf.lua deliberately such that the cache data is dumped to the user's home directory. In particular, luatools --generate doesn't need admin rights so if for some reason it attempts to write to protected system areas this will be blocked anyway. So let's say I'm just curious ...

maybe a difference between the mtxrun/luatools files (with merged, maybe older, libs) and the rest anyhow, this is the code that creates ... elseif caches.force or io.ask(format("\nShould I create the cache path %s?",cachepath), "no", { "yes", "no" }) == "yes" then dir.mkdirs(cachepath) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------