[tex-live] Seeming bugs in TeX Live 2014

[Philip Taylor]

1a) The qualifier "--gui" in :

	TLMGR --gui generate

is ignored; no GUI is launched, and a series of text diagnostics appear 
instead.  This contradicts the information given at 
https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html#OPTIONS.


1b) The qualifier "--gui" in :

	TLMGR --gui generate language

is ignored; no GUI is launched, and all actions take place on the 
commend line.


2) The scroll bar in the TLMGR GUI is dysfunctional; attempting to pull 
it downwards causes it to perversely rise upwards instead.


3) The TLMGR GUI action "Rebuild format files" gives no indication that 
it has completed successfully; the last line reads :

OK. xmltex.exe exists.              OK. pdfxmltex.exe exists.

whereas if it fails, tthe last lines read something along the lines of :

OK. xmltex.exe exists.              OK. pdfxmltex.exe exists.

I could not create 4 of format (base, mem) file(s):
luatex.fmt                          dviluatex.fmt
luajittex.fmt                       xetex.fmt

For details, see log file(s) in the dir(s) for fmt, base, or mem.
D:\TeX\Live\2014\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:652: command failed with exit 
code 1:
fmtutil --all

The absence of an error message cannot really be taken as conclusive 
evidence of successful completion, and the action "Update filenames 
database" gives a clear message that it has completed successfully :

mktexlsr: Done.


4) The TLMGR GUI fails to remember its physical size and divider 
positions across incarnations.

Philip Taylor