On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Peter Münster
On Sat, May 03 2008, luigi scarso wrote:
1. for my linux box, I just grabbed the linux tarball, but the binaries in there still declare they're version 1.003. Is that an oversight, or are those indeed old binaries (and you forgot to pack the new ones? :-)
# mpost This is MetaPost, Version 1.004 (Web2C 7.5.5)
That means some redundancy in the code: the version number is maintained at two places ("mpost" and "mpost --version").
root@luigicasa-laptop:/opt/luatex/metapost-1.004# grep -r 1.004 src src/texk/web2c/mp.web:@d banner=='This is MetaPost, Version 1.004' {printed when \MP\ starts} src/texk/web2c/mp.web:@d metapost_version=="1.004" root@luigicasa-laptop:/opt/luatex/metapost-1.004# grep -r 1.003 src src/texk/web2c/lib/texmfmp.c:#define BANNER "This is MetaPost, Version 1.003" -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org