On 06/10/2015 22:50, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > On 2015-10-06 at 16:54:57 +0100, Joseph Wright wrote: > > > For TeX Live users, binary updates (essentially) only happen once > > per year at release time, so probably something like April/May > > before any change. (Someone from the TL team will doubtless comment > > on that). > > Well, there is a small difference between binaries for Unix and for > Windows. Binaries for Unix are compiled once per year because a lot > of people are involved. Binaries for Windows are compiled by Akira > Kakuto for his W32TeX distribution. Akira occasionally uploaded new > binaries to the TL repository immediately after he had fixed a bug. > > Of course, TeX Live should behave identically on all systems and it > doesn't make sense to upload LuaTeX 0.81 binaries for Windows only. > > In order to evaluate LuaTeX 0.81, Unix users can easily compile the > binaries themselves and Windows users can use binaries from > > http://w32tex.org/ > > AFAIK W32TeX is always quite up-to-date and I'm sure that LuaTeX 0.81 > will appear there soon when it's released.
Thanks for the clarification. > > For MiKTeX users the timetable is not so rigid though it's still > > not going to happen 'immediately' following a code update. > > It's all done by a single person. What do you expect? Wasn't meant as anything other than an observation: Christian Schenk clearly does a lot of work to keep MiKTeX working! Joseph
