[tex-live] script for LuaTeX font database updating

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Feb 25 19:26:19 CET 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 07:15:30PM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 25 February 2010 T T wrote:
>  > Single common script is better. For Unix acting on argv[0] is standard
>  > and allows the -sys version to be a symlink. For Windows I need --sys
>  > switch for our universal wrapper, because I can't alter argv[0] for
>  > scripts (well, for Lua script I could, but switch will be less hackish
>  > :).
> 
> Since there are already some -sys scripts we can't get rid of, I think
> it's worthwhile to consider whether it makes sense to follow this
> scheme, just that such programs behave similar.

I'd say we shouldn't keep repeating the mistakes of the past just
because we can't (or unwilling) to fix the old ones.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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