On 6/15/2017 1:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 15 June 2017 at 13:39, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 6/15/2017 12:05 PM, Mathias Schickel wrote:
So I am simply asking: How can I use older betas or how can I get the source of LuaTeX 1.05 on a Mac and compile it?
Mojca is setting up the build bots so one of these days there will be binaries.
You can fetch it from here: http://dl.contextgarden.net/build/luatex/ (those binaries should end up in minimals very soon).
But on Mac we are currently experiencing some build problems on existing machines, most likely due to some problems with outdated timestamps of generated files. I'm waiting for Luigi to fix the problem.
i'm somewhat puzzled by timestamps as i can compile here on my machine (which has a rather limited linux box)
But aside from that. If you (developers, not users) want to call one version of LuaTeX 1.05, you should tag a version 1.05.
well, maybe, but then we end up with lots of small-step version numbers which is not what we like (in fact, a tag is ok for tex live but we might want to test a precursor on the garden with context first as we can fix context issues quite fast)
Increasing the version numbers in trunk and skipping any official releases is a pretty bad development practice.
Usually you would put experimental features to trunk and whatever you want to end up at users to tags or potentially stable maintained branches that get bugfixes. we use trunk (and therefore the garden) for testing too, so it's okay wrt version numbers (if needed we can distinguish builds with status.develooment_id) and we can at some point also use the revision number (which in the past was not used properly) .. also, normally a garden beta (+bins) is a working combination
anyway, once the bot works ok we can hapilly move forward Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------