[OS X TeX] Re: MetaPost in teTeX distribution: inconsistent versions

[nicola]

In article <29BB5974-290C-4D21-862A-BAD5D8B5F40D at Web.DE>,
 Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:

> Am 29.11.2006 um 15:05 schrieb nicola:
> 
> > I have the latest (16/10/2006) teTeX distribution installed by  
> > Wierda's
> > i-Installer, which claims to have mpost 0.901. Some of the base files,
> > however, which I find in
> >
> > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/metapost/base/
> >
> > are different from the ones that can be found in the MetaPost  
> > package at:
> >
> > https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/
> 
> That's OK! Remember that the last teTeX update happened last year ...  
> and from this old basis every "new" i-Package must be built.
> 

IMHO, if the MetaPost binary has been updated to the latest stable 
release, so should have been all its related files. That's why I'm 
talking about inconsistency: if mpost -v tells me 0.901, I assume that 
all the features of v0.901 are available - which does not happen to be 
the case, at least in my installation (I might have messed up something).

Does anyone know whether this a bug - maybe an i-Package specific one? 
Or, maybe, a conflict with ConTeXt, which I have installed, too? 

Nicola

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