[tex-live] Asymptote

[Victor Ivrii]

After this night update asymptote as a part of TL pretest stopped to
work on MacOSX:

as "everything" but binaries got updated /usr/texbin/asy returns

Welcome to Asymptote version 1.99 (to view the manual, type help)
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/asymptote/plain_Label.asy: 616.15: no
matching function 'search(stringfont[], stringfont, bool(stringfont a,
stringfont b))'
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/asymptote/plain_Label.asy: 618.17: no
matching function 'search(stringfont[], stringfont, bool(stringfont a,
stringfont b))'
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/asymptote/plain_Label.asy: 655.21: cannot call
'path[] _texpath(string s, pen p=<default>)'
with parameters
'(string[], pen[])'
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/asymptote/plain_Label.asy: 668.19: no
matching function 'search(stringfont[], stringfont, bool(stringfont a,
stringfont b))'
/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/asymptote/plain_Label.asy: 676.36: no
matching function 'search(stringfont[], stringfont, bool(stringfont a,
stringfont b))'
error: recursive loading of module 'plain'

and exits.


It is not the case on x86_64-linux where asy binaries got updated to
version 2.00. BTW release is 2.01

Please do not consider this as a complain (c'est  pretest la vie :-)
) but as a warning. Those who use asymptote on daily basis should
either maintain the "other" copy of it (as I do, updating it via svn)
or not to update it unless in

update --list or update --dry-run

asymptote comes with a binary.



BTW, it would be useful for this if tlmgr update  understood no only
<packagename> and --all but also "except <packagename>"

Fortunately TeXLive Utility on MacOSX (GUI interface for tlmgr) can
update "selected packages"

Victor


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Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii