[tex-live] luatex release

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Tue May 22 10:38:18 CEST 2007



Frank Küster wrote:
> Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
> 
>> in due time (i.e. when luatex is stable) we will provide examples of
>> these things (and more documentation) which will be somewhere mid
>> 2008, so after the next tex live;
> 
> By the way, one question regarding luatex:  There's currently a package
> luatex-snapshot in Debian unstable, for the bold and brave to test.  The
> name makes clear that it isn't a released version.
> 
> We were wondering whether we should allow it to enter testing and,
> finally, the next Debian release which is planned "less than 2 years
> after April 2007".  In other words, it might be late enough to contain
> the first release of luatex, but it's equally likely that we would have
> to freeze at a snapshot somewhat before that.
> 
> What's your opinion about that?

There will be 'real' betas starting this July, it makes sense to wait
until then, but it would be nice if those could be included.

Best wishes, Taco



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