On 10/1/2013 11:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/1/2013 11:19 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

On 10/01/2013 11:11 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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 awa

Does it matter to you whether it is an actual date string, or could it
be a subversion revision number? (both are possible, the date string
would simply switch to the datetime associated with the subversion
revision instead of the actual build date).

(to be clear: i don't use the primitive, just the banner, so the
primitive can go anyway)

we could have

luatex 0.77.0 (rev xxxx) (date ....)

(beta- prefix not needed)

and any piece of the workflow could ignore whatever bit they like and/or the date part could be omitted for stable releases