Joel C. Salomon wrote:
I'm considering porting LuaTεχ to a new, vaguely Uɴɪx-like, operating system. (Plan 9 from Bell Labs, if anyone cares.) What libraries/compilers/interpreters does the system have to have for this to work? E.g., I know that texexec is currently written in Ruby (which Plan 9 lacks), but Lua is straight C (which Plan 9 is built around).
(If you tell me to wait a few months until things stabilize, that's fine too.)
texexec is just a runner for context (taking care of process management and index sortign and a few more things) and in that sense not related to luatex i think that the biggest hurdle is the somewhat complex tex source code tree but luatex needs only bits and pieces and the source tree in the repository is already a subset if lua compiles then you're halfway i guess maybe ask on the tex live list for plan 9 experiences; i cc to karl, who knows all those things 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------