From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt Minimals: `luatools --selfupdate` does not work.
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:32:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C813119.9010906@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283526960.3987.63.camel@mattotaupa>
On 3-9-2010 5:16, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 03.09.2010, 16:48 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> On 3-9-2010 3:28, Paul Menzel wrote:
>
>>> I installed ConTeXt minimals and tried to run
>>>
>>> luatools --selfupdate
>>>
>>> as documented in the Wiki [1].
>>>
>>> It looks like, the option is not supported anymore, since the output
>>> looks like a list of supported options. Am I right about this?
>>
>> this is because luatools is now a shortcut to "mtxrun --script base" so
>> you only need to selfupdate mtxrun ... originally luatools was meant as
>> a generic stub for making luatex formats etc but as I don't expect it to
>> be used outside context it's sort of gone as independent script as
>> mtxrun can do most of the same (what's left ended up in mtx-base)
>
> Understood. I updated the Wiki page accordingly [2].
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> PS: `luatools --generate` still does something. Is it deprecated and
> superseded by a `mtxrun` command?
no, luatools (or mtxrun --script base) sort of does what kpsewhich does
and as such it also generates a file database so luatools will stay as
shortcut
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-03 13:28 Paul Menzel
2010-09-03 14:48 ` Hans Hagen
2010-09-03 15:16 ` Paul Menzel
2010-09-03 17:32 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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