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Re: LuaTeX >= 0.85 support
From: |
Masamichi HOSODA |
Subject: |
Re: LuaTeX >= 0.85 support |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:25:32 +0900 (JST) |
>> If it were up to me, I would simply declare LuaTeX unsupported at least
>> until 1.0. It seems that tracking Hans's changes from now on will imply
>> a huge investment of time and effort, let alone doing it in a compatible
>> way so that people not running the bleeding edge will keep working as
>> well. I don't see that the return is worth it. But of course, if you
>> want to, more power to you!
>
> If LuaTeX breaks compatibility with earlier LuaTeX files, then it
> seems acceptable in some sense not to support older versions of
> LuaTeX. If LuaTeX is stable at some point, then I'd have no problem
> with removing support for any earlier versions of LuaTeX. As Karl
> said, there's no harm if you want to keep on updating to track
> LuaTeX's changes.
Thank you for your information.
I'll watch LuaTeX changing.