[luatex] Why is --progname needed?

[Hartmut Henkel]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

> Taco Hoekwater a écrit :
> > If you want, you can try #2310 (trunk), which removes the restriction.
> >
> Tried with #2324, works fine.
>
> By the way, using #2324 I get:
>
> mpg at roth:~% luatex --version
> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.39.0-2009041812 luatex.web v2306
>
> I find the v2306 mention quite confusing, don't you?

maybe one should write something like ">= v2306" (at least it's to be
understood as that, i guess), else one has to touch luatex.web after any
luatex code change.

Regards, Hartmut