On 10/1/2013 10:33 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi,
Karl would like me to remove \luatexdatestamp (and its associated lua value), because that makes it easier to create new binaries from the same source code (without getting small differences always).
That is a good argument, so my current plan is to remove it in the next version. Consider yourself warned ;)
Thank you. I also asked a couple of times to at least replace this date with the date of the latest change in SVN. The latter would be at least consistent and informative, while the date of compilation is both unreliable and causes constant change of the binaries.
I believe this is also less of an issue now that LuaTeX is more or less stable and the LuaTeX version is mostly sufficient. In past when everyone was using "the latest" version from trunk it was more important to know which version it was.
as long as we keep the (unique) date in the luatex banner ... context uses that for automatically regenerating the format etc and that's a feature I'd not like to see go away Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------