[tex-live] General test suite for TeX-Live

David Carlisle d.p.carlisle at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 21:34:53 CEST 2016


On 19 June 2016 at 20:30, Uwe Ziegenhagen <ziegenhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe but my Lua Skills are non-existing, my Python skills improving on a
> daily basis.
>
> Let's see if it works at all, then we can find a way.
>
> Uwe
>

the existing (lua) l3build framework could be used as a model of a
cross platform tex test suite.

Using texlua as the scripting engine has proved pretty successful in
making testing and building
packages work in all texlive supported environments.

David


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