Am Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:20:02 +0100 schrieb Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard: > Le 02/03/2011 10:55, Khaled Hosny a écrit : >>> And the main pending thing is "include the newest context code". >> >> ConTeXt beta require luatex 0.65.x and likely to require even higher >> versions as development goes, so sync is unlikely to happen before >> texlive2011 (the code we borrow might not actually be that dependant on >> new luatex, but one need to check carefully). >> > That's why Élie's suggestion of maintaining two branches (one for recent > LuaTeX, > with ConTeXt code regularly merged in, and one for whatever version of LuaTeX > is > in "stable" distros) sounds interesting. The stable branch would either > include > only bugfixes, or even be completely frozen to reduce the amount of > maintainer work. > > Ulrike, what's the situation with LuaTeX on MikTeX? Is it updated regularly, > or > only once per MiKTeX version, as in TeX Live ? The underlying question is: is > it > worth releasing the unstable version to CTAN for the benefice of MikTeX, or is > LuaTeX too old there too?
miktex has still luatex 0.60.2. It hasn't update it since the release, but this can change. E.g. xetex was updated regularly sometimes only a few days after the original version. (I made a feature request that it updates more frequently). So the current stable version is more or less enough for miktex. But it is not very difficult to use a development version of e.g. w32tex.org. I have setup a small "texlive-tree" which reuses most of my miktex files and which I use when I want to test different versions. So an unstable version somewhere else would be interesting also for me as miktex user. -- Ulrike Fischer
