On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 21:12 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
I still haven't got LuaTeX running properly. Something I wonder about is why all those installation instructions weren't executed before creating the tarballs.
well, taco and i and a few others have mkiv running fro quite a while no (before it went beta) ... the problem is that we cannot foresee how users have set up their system
I understand... Hiring a psychic probably isn't an option. However if you take a look at TeX live, you'll see that they just deliver almost everything them selves... So why not include lua and lcdf-typetools precompiled with ConTeXt. Have everything statically compiled so it'll just work. This isn't pretty... But it'll work...
the biggest issue is that
(1) luatex needs a cache path and users may have conflicting demands (2) luatex needs lua code to start up and therefore be ablt to find it
I understand this is a beta. But making the installation less complex might get you more testers.
well, once it runt it runs ... tex has never been easy to install and we cannot change everything at once
True...
I should probably reread the docs, and put some more effort into it.
guess so