(Most) stable minimal for Mac Intel

(Most) stable minimal for Mac Intel

[Oliver Buerschaper]

Hi folks,

after hesitating for a while I've decided to take the plunge and dive  
into LuaTeX finally. I'm just a bit confused about what the most  
stable release of LuaTeX is at the moment and where to get it ... from  
Pragma or the garden? There is a minimal distribution dated 2007-08-08  
at Pragma but it appears slightly outdated ... shall I still get this  
one or is there a later version which also runs more or less smoothly?  
I'd be glad if someone pointed  me to the "right" minimal ... by the  
way, my machine is an Intel Mac equipped with Leopard.

Thanks for your help,
Oliver
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Re: (Most) stable minimal for Mac Intel

[Arthur Reutenauer]

>                      I'm just a bit confused about what the most  
> stable release of LuaTeX is at the moment and where to get it ... from  
> Pragma or the garden?

  Neither.  The source for the LuaTeX binaries is the Supélec GForge
repository (cross-referenced from luatex.org):

	http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=10

  It contains binaries for every beta version, not only the latest one;
but as a rule you should better take the latest beta release if you have
a recent ConTeXt: Mark IV often relies on very recent LuaTeX features,
so older binaries will *not* run smoothly, on the contrary.

  The current version is beta-0.20.2.  I build the binaries for Mac OS X
myself each time Taco releases a beta (I compile on Tiger, but I expect
the binaries should work flawlessly on Leopard -- if you experience
problems, please report).

	Arthur
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Re: (Most) stable minimal for Mac Intel

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Jan 21, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:

>  The current version is beta-0.20.2.  I build the binaries for Mac  
> OS X
> myself each time Taco releases a beta (I compile on Tiger, but I  
> expect
> the binaries should work flawlessly on Leopard -- if you experience
> problems, please report).
>
> 	Arthur

Not only can I confirm that Arthur's binaries work perfectly on  
Leopard; Taco has also fixed the trunk version, so it's now possible  
to check out the latest revision and compile it on Leopard, should you  
be so inclined (it's simply a matter of calling the script build.sh,  
so no black magic is involved).

Thomas
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