[OS X TeX] asy (darwin)

[Victor Ivrii]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 12, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>
>> despite running
>>
>> tlmgr install --reinstall asymptote.x86_64-darwin
>> tlmgr install --reinstall asymptote.universal-darwin
>>
>> asy
>>
>> Welcome to Asymptote version 1.94 (to view the manual, type help)
>> warning [version]: using possibly incompatible version 1.96 of plain.asy
>>
>> does it mean that binary is of the wrong (previous) version?
>>
>> On .x86_64-linux   asy has version 1.96 as it should
>>
>> Current stable is 1.97
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>>
>> Victor
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> In spite of having the .x86_64-darwin and .universal-darwin extensions those packages do NOT (at least at this time) contain real binary updates but rather configuration, documentation, etc.

This contradicts to the fact that on x86_64-linux there was a real
update from 1.94 to 1.96


>
> You'll have to wait for a full update of TeX Live (and MacTeX) and then reinstall after that gets around.

I use self-compiled 1.98-svn. Actually tlmgr can update binaries and
it is used this was during pretest period
Victor

>
> I believe that there is hope to one day have binaries updated via tlmgr but it isn't there yet.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
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