Hi Mojca On Sun, 2025-06-08 at 17:44 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2025 at 02:10, Max Chernoff via tex-live wrote:
I've taken over packaging ConTeXt for CTAN and TeX Live.
Thanks a lot for this, but I have one question: what's the plan with luametatex binaries? Would the binaries then be updated multiple times per year, and if so, from which source?
It's complicated. For most platforms, I'm running $ mtxrun --script install --platform=$PLATFORM --update to install the binaries from the Standalone Distribution, and then I'm copying these directly into TeX Live. These binaries should always be functional since they're exactly what's distributed upstream. This applies to the following platforms: amd64-freebsd i386-linux windows x86_64-linux x86_64-linuxmusl For macOS, the Standalone Distribution uses separate aarch64 and x86_64 binaries, but TeX Live uses a single universal binary. For those, I'm installing the binaries from the Standalone Distribution as normal, and then I'm directly copying the x86_64 binary into x86_64-darwinlegacy, and I'm merging the x86_64 and aarch64 binaries into a single universal binary using llvm-lipo. This applies to the following platforms: universal-darwin x86_64-darwinlegacy The ConTeXt build farm builds LuaMetaTeX binaries for a bunch of platforms not directly supported by the ConTeXt installer. The problem is that there are only 2 branches---"main", which was last updated in February (and therefore too old to work with an updated ConTeXt) https://build.contextgarden.net/dl/luametatex/main/ and "work", which is updated daily-ish (and therefore often too new to work with the stable ConTeXt versions) https://build.contextgarden.net/dl/luametatex/work/ However, since my build/upload script runs daily, it's pretty unlikely that the contents of the "work" branch will be any newer than the ConTeXt TEXMF files, except in cases where I'm releasing to TeX Live more than a day after an upstream ConTeXt version was released (which is what happened for this first initial release, but shouldn't happen often in the future). I don't really like this solution, so hopefully you/me/Hans can figure something out so that it isn't necessary for future releases. This applies to the following platforms: aarch64-linux armhf-linux i386-freebsd i386-solaris x86_64-solaris And then there are the platforms for which the Build Farm does not generate binaries. Some platforms have agreed to watch the TeX Live/ CTAN/GitHub releases and manually rebuild LuaMetaTeX when needed; this applies to the following platforms: amd64-netbsd i386-netbsd And some platforms decided to not bother keeping up with the frequent rebuilds, which isn't really a big deal since the initial release of TL25 didn't include LuaMetaTeX binaries for these platforms anyways. This applies to the following platforms: x86_64-cygwin There are also some platforms supported by the ConTeXt installer or the Build Farm, but for whom TeX Live does not officially distribute any binaries. I'm including the binaries for these platforms in the zip archives on CTAN and GitHub, but they're not included in TeX Live. This applies to the following platforms: amd64-openbsd73 sparc-solaris There are also lots of platforms supported by neither TeX Live nor the ConTeXt Build Farm, but with binaries available from Nelson Beebe's site: https://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive-utah/ I'm not doing anything about any of these platforms, so those users are on their own. Hopefully that clarifies things a little bit. Thanks, -- Max