From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42574 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.metapost,gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Metapost beta 1.090 released Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:10:26 +0200 Message-ID: <48809642.20306@elvenkind.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216386674 16401 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 13:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:11:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "MetaPost bug reports and discussion." , MetaPost List , mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: metapost-bounces@tug.org Fri Jul 18 15:12:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctm-metapost-5@gmane.org Original-Received: from dmz-169.daimi.au.dk ([130.225.2.169] helo=tug.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJpkP-0005Xz-7F; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:11:45 +0200 Original-Received: from tug.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tug.org (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.6) with ESMTP id m6IDAVZ18391; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:10:31 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp.nfit.au.dk (nfitmail.nfit.au.dk [130.225.31.129]) by tug.org (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.6) with ESMTP id m6IDASZ18383; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:10:28 +0200 Original-Received: from mfe03.daimi.au.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.nfit.au.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA948239D4C; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:10:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by mfe03.daimi.au.dk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6IDAQih019920; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:10:26 +0200 Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84068801CB7F; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:10:26 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080305) X-DAIMI-Spam-Score: 0.1 () DAIMI_TO_TUGBOX. CRMScore=UNSURE(-1.2131). X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 10.19.8.40 X-BeenThere: metapost@tug.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: "MetaPost discussion." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: metapost-bounces@tug.org Errors-To: metapost-bounces@tug.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.metapost:947 gmane.comp.tex.context:42574 Archived-At: Hi all, I have just released the archive files for MetaPost 1.090, the first official beta for the new stable version of MetaPost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This MetaPost release is based on MPlib. For those of you who are not aware of the MPlib project yet: MPlib is the name of the new, revamped version of the MetaPost interpreter. It is implemented in Cweb, and internally consists of a core library, an mpx generation library, and a frontend driver program (mpost). There are no changes to the MetaPost language, but nevertheless there are some minor differences with the last pascal-web based version of MetaPost (1.005): * The MPlib distribution is released under the GPL version 2 or, at your option, any later version. * The commandline is slightly different, run mpost --help for details. * The mem file format is changed, you have to regenerate any existing ones. * The new mpx generation library includes the label generation functionality that was previously provided by 'makempx', and this internal code will be used instead of an external program. That is, unless the MPXCOMMAND variable is set in the environment or texmf.cnf. The 'mpware' programs became obsolete and are no longer included in the distribution. * Most of the memory configuration variables from texmf.cnf have become obsolete due to dynamic reallocation. The four remaining ones are 'main_memory', 'hash_size', 'max_in_open', 'param_size'. These are only taken into account at mem generation time, the values are stored in and reloaded from the mem file. * The core MPlib library does not interpret an initial '&' as anything special and it does not support re-initialization using a different mem file either. The command line program mpost _does_ interpret '&' as an alias for the -mem switch to preserve (some) compatility. * The MPlib distribution includes lua script language bindings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can get the sources and a cross-compiled mingw binary for Win32 from the usual place: http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=13&release_id=309 Have fun, Taco -- http://tug.org/metapost/