Re: packaging lualatex-platform

> Well currently it isn't in texlive either.

It is now in Win32 build according to [1].

> And as far as I followed
> the discussion I haven't seen tests or examples that showed that it
> works in windows, what it should do exactly

Reading fonts in the registry, so that fonts installed in Windows but
not in C:\\Windows\Fonts.

> and that it does it, and
> if this feature is important. 

It will be used optionally by luaotfload. It is important if you want
LuaTeX to access all fonts installed in Windows.

Thank you,
-- 
Elie

[1]: http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2015-June/005219.html

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