[luatex] latest 'fixes' don't fix....again.

[Evan Cooch]

Thanks for the insight. Would the best advice then, for MikTeX users 
be....'don't update anything having to do with lua*'? (Whch as of this 
morning has become a personal memo to self - I've even put a post-it 
note above my monitor to remind me).

Perhaps someone on the dev side of things for lua* should email 
Christian, and let me know (although it is easy enough to broadcast a 
general warning on various discussion boards, it might be better to 
contact the maintainer of MikTeX in the first place).



On 5/9/2013 7:57 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Evan Cooch wrote:
>> On 5/9/2013 7:21 AM, Evan Cooch wrote:
>>
>>> So, I waited until this morning to try updating my MikTeX 2.9 system (one of
>>> them, at least). Various updates dated May 8 (couple of days after I'd
>>> reported some problems, which were purpotedly related to corrupt lualibs).
>> Reverted to versions before todays 'updates' -  everything works fine.
>>
>> Sorry for sounding like a broken record, but this does seem to be hapenning
>> with some frequency, at least recently.
> Updates are coordinated with TeX Live team (and W32TeX follows TeX
> Live), but they aren't coordinated with Christian Schenk (which I
> believe they should). Particularly for the latest luatex & babel
> updates (as well as hyph-utf8).
>
> After LuaTeX update in TeX Live, many scripts and packages had to be
> adapted to get compliant with lua 5.2. TeX Live is frozen, but without
> close coordination the author of MikTeX probably doesn't know what
> exactly is going on has to fight with all the problems on his own
> which is suboptimal.
>
> Mojca
>