[luatex] Luatex primitive names

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> \directlua will always be there as it is needed to enable the primitives  so
>> it is a save test
> 
> what about the getopt route?
> 
> luatex --ini foo (using tex82)
> luatex --ini foo --pdftex (using pdftex)
> luatex --ini foo --pdftex --etex (using pdfetex)
> luatex --ini foo --luatex (using luatex)

that would complicate matters .. think of macro packages doing differnet 
things as users on the commandline demand; also, it all started with 
prefixes so your solution would end up as --pdftex=MyPrefix which in 
turn would give interesting conflicts

Hans


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