Re: Upgrading LuaTeX

Am Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:30:46 +0200 schrieb Christian Schenk:


>> I was wondering if there are known plans to upgrade LuaTeX from the
>> version currently included in MiKTeX (0.70; the latest LuaTeX release is
>> 0.76). Is there a usual schedule for such upgrades?
 
> Usually only x.x0 versions of LuaTeX are included in the MiKTeX 
> distribution. See http://luatex.org/roadmap.html:
> 
> "...major releases (x.x0 versions) are stable enough to be used for 
> production work..."

As some important core lualatex packages currently break with luatex
0.75 it is quite good that miktex doesn't update the binary.

On the other side: work has started to update this packages and it
would be good if the changes could also be tested on a miktex
system, e.g. to ensure that font caches are stored correctly in the
texmf trees. Would it be possible to add to miktex a
miktex-luatex-dev.exe which keeps track (more or less) with the
newest luatex version?



-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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