[tex-live] TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation)
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Tue May 22 10:03:26 CEST 2007
David Kastrup wrote:
>
> Seems pretty pointless if you already tested the startup times. Then
> the only advantage would seem to be that a separate binary would put
> people at ease. But a symbolic link with a different name would
> likely serve a similar purpose.
>
>
the symlink (or its equivalent on windows) is just a convenience trick
luatex --luaonly scriptname.lua
is doing the same
the only reason we came up with luatexlua (can be symlink or copy) is
that it's the only way to make this 'scan the first line and run a
program' work (#....) because when that name is used the --luaonly is
automatic
when started as such, no tex mem is allocated because that only happens
after kpse calls are used
when using luatex as scripting engine with access to kpse, one needs to
start it in tex mode and load the script then; no big deal either;
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;
so, for using luatex for installation purposes, it will take a couple of
tex lives before that is feasible
Hans
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