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[Hans Hagen <pragma@xxxxxx>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hans sent me a patch to fix behaviour of the latest LuaTeX (that I
> still need to test). Should we wait? Should we patch the otf files and
> switch to the latest luatex? (linux-ppc and solaris would lag behind
> until we get the new binaries, but that doesn't seem too critical)
>
> Should I wait for the "big package" of changes?

the big package of changes will not come next week since it involves 
quite a lot (best do an alpha for that)

> On the other hand: I'm still looking for a better way to deal with
> such incompatibilities.

normally luatex/mkiv can be in sync but it just happens that i do a lot 
of code rewrit eright now (probably the one with the biggest impact) and 
 it cannot be done in a small-step way

> - There is a way to switch to an older ConTeXt, but that doesn't
> really help since LuaTeX changes too fast.
> - There is experimental branch that is not fully functional (but could
> be made functional, I'm only not sure what binaries to commit there).
> Some ideas or discussions would be welcome.
> - One could misuse a different server or a different subdomain to put
> "more experimental stuff" there and then only sync if there have been
> no problems observed for more than three days
> - One could put the whole texmf-whatever tree with all the modules
> under version control; one looses the possibility to choose modules,
> but at least the option to roll back in time would be there

Hans

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