Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Texlive 2008 works perfectly with Context, but I have one question
> regarding luatools. I am posting this here rather than on TL mailing list,
> since I do not want to cause more confusion on TL regarding ConTeXt.
>
> In the bin directory in minimals, luatools is a copy of luatools.lua. This
> means that one does not need ruby in order to run luatools. It also means
> that whenver you upgrade your system, you need to run luatools
> --selfupdate.
>
> In TL2008, luatools is a wrapper script.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> texmfstart luatools.lua "$@"
>
> This means that you need to have ruby in order to run luatools. The
> advantage is that you do not need to run luatools --selfupdate. In terms
> of speed, there is a slight disadvantage, you first start ruby, and then
> start texlua. Using a wrapper script was suggested by Taco on the mailing
> list.
having a 'copy' or 'symlink' is indeed the best for luatools and mtxrun,
and using texmfstart for it is at some point going to fail
> If TL is to use a wrapper scipt, why not simply
>
> #!/bin/sh
> mtxrun --script luatools "$@"
>
> this will mean that you do not start ruby before moving to lua. In both
> cases, one has to do mtxrun --selfupdate after a update that changes
> mtxrun.
i prefer both mtxrun and luatools to be handled as programs and not
being stubbed (in a luatex specific installation there won;t even be a
texmfstart anyway and i'm thinking of replacing texmfstart by mtxrun at
somepoint)
> This is not really important, since luatools will be run rarely. Do you
> think that the current texmfstart wrapper should be changed to a mtxrun
> wrapper?
at some point i might replace luatools by mtx-tools so that we only have
mtxrun; i could not combine both because they have a different set of
flags but in that case luatools would be a simple stub like 'context' is
currently
Hans
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