On 12/25/2012 1:28 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hi,
Taco announced the release of new LuaTeX and MetaPost a few hours ago. This means a new request for building for you, however in the experiments so far LuaTeX only compiled on two out of three platforms for me (it failed on i386-linux and sparc-solaris) and there seem to be some more generic problems with metapost (missing file for inclusion), so please don't be surprised if you experience problems (or rather: please be patient until potential problems get resolved, and report problems if you experience any).
Norbert also found a compatibility problem (older ConTeXt doesn't run with this LuaTeX).
Indeed, and that is to be expected. LuaTeX 0.74 is a major change in the sense that it uses Lua 5.2 and it's no big deal for context garden users as they can update to the latest. The latest beta runs ok with older luatexs. One should be careful in just replacing luatex in for instance a tex live tree or frozen copy of a garden tree. As far as I can see the impact of the 5.1 -> 5.2 move is not that large at the code level yet (a few deprecated or renamed core lua functions) apart from a speed gain of some 5-10% on the average. I already did some adaptions to 5.2 as soon as it came out. Of course using 0.74 in the garden standalone is fine as one updates luatex binaries in sync with context source code. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------