Norbert Preining wrote:
Hi Taco! Hi luatex Devs!
On Mit, 20 Dez 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Norbert Preining wrote:
I know, I will call the package luatex-snapshot upload it to experimental, and people will get a warning about its usage. It is ok this way, not many people will get it from experimental anyway, but I want to have it around for testing, and better early adoption then late work.
The point is that there are people who don't want to compile things but still are able to test stuff. For those luatex-snapshot pacakged will serve, too (and for me, because I don't want to have packages not under package management control on my system ;-)
That's ok, thanks (dropped the old CCs, added dev-luatex).
Ok, perfect, can someone put me on the dev-luatex list, if you think it make sense? I was working with omega until it was dead (ok, you know what I mean), then aleph (same same, but different), so I hope that luatex does not go the same way.
don't worry; first of all part of the software development by taco is paid for by a grant (oriental tex project); next, luatex is a prelude for pdftex version 2 (version 1 == good old tex will be frozen i.e. no more new features, only big fixes); and on top of that, taco and i are pretty determined to get it done (there will be some reports in tugboat/maps about experiences so far; next year, context will ship with so called context mkiv code (extra zip) which reimplements some parts in lua; by then, we need to discuss a few distribution things because luatex may demand a different setup) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------