> Le 21 nov. 2022 à 13:46, Luca Fascione <l.fasci...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Sorry, luatex is like 10yrs old, what's the need for xetex again?


Are you asking this to me (judging from To:/Cc:)? I don’t see one.


> Maybe I could justify pdftex (I really don't quite see it, but maybe)


As said on the MR, it is faster and makes for lighter CI Docker images.


> but xetex seems just arbitrary... Or do you mean for a transition period?
> 
> What's the oldest system that this Lilypond would be used on? What's the 
> youngest texlive that will run on that system? That's your tex distro of 
> reference.


The availability of the various TeX engines is not a problem.

Jean



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