* Metapost beta 1.090 released
@ 2008-07-18 13:10 Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-18 18:01 ` Yue Wang
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2008-07-18 13:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: MetaPost bug reports and discussion.,
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Hi all,
I have just released the archive files for MetaPost 1.090, the
first official beta for the new stable version of MetaPost.
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What is new:
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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.
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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
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* Re: Metapost beta 1.090 released
2008-07-18 13:10 Metapost beta 1.090 released Taco Hoekwater
@ 2008-07-18 18:01 ` Yue Wang
2008-07-18 18:18 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Yue Wang @ 2008-07-18 18:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
Hi, Taco:
> This MetaPost release is based on MPlib.
Oh! My God!!! Such a big change~ So are you sure the code is stable enough?
btw, If we insist to use the mplib, why not make mpost a symbol link
to LuaTeX in TeXLive 2008?
(just revise a few code of LuaTeX, make it behave like metapost when
mpost is called, lua when texlua is called, **tex when **tex is
called)
Yue Wang
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* Re: Metapost beta 1.090 released
2008-07-18 18:01 ` Yue Wang
@ 2008-07-18 18:18 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-18 21:09 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2008-07-18 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi, Taco:
>
>> This MetaPost release is based on MPlib.
>
> Oh! My God!!! Such a big change~ So are you sure the code is stable enough?
I have to push out the code sometime, otherwise it will never be ready.
But it will not be on this year's texlive, that has 'only' mpost 1.005
and an outdated version of mplib inside luatex.exe of two months ago
or so (0.25.4). Gives us plenty of time to test before texlive 2009.
> btw, If we insist to use the mplib, why not make mpost a symbol link
> to LuaTeX in TeXLive 2008?
> (just revise a few code of LuaTeX, make it behave like metapost when
> mpost is called, lua when texlua is called, **tex when **tex is
> called)
maybe next year ;-)
Best wishes,
Taco
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* Re: Metapost beta 1.090 released
2008-07-18 18:18 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2008-07-18 21:09 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-07-18 21:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> Yue Wang wrote:
>> Hi, Taco:
>>
>>> This MetaPost release is based on MPlib.
>> Oh! My God!!! Such a big change~ So are you sure the code is stable enough?
>
> I have to push out the code sometime, otherwise it will never be ready.
> But it will not be on this year's texlive, that has 'only' mpost 1.005
> and an outdated version of mplib inside luatex.exe of two months ago
> or so (0.25.4). Gives us plenty of time to test before texlive 2009.
also, taco, i and some members of this list spend quite some time on
testing already so it's not that there's suddenly an instable system
Hans
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