[tex-live] script for LuaTeX font database updating

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On 25 February 2010 23:10, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:03:01AM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>> On 26 February 2010 Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>
>>  > >  > I'd say we shouldn't keep repeating the mistakes of the past just
>>  > >  > because we can't (or unwilling) to fix the old ones.
>>  > >
>>  > > I don't think it's a mistake.  It was a design decision and the way it
>>  > > was done is reasonable:
>>  >
>>  > I consider a "different behaviour based on executable name" a wrong
>>  > design decision and hence, IMHO, a mistake.
>>
>> Then good luck with something like
>>
>>   dos2unix --unix2dos
>
> $ iconv -f "windows-1256" -t "utf-8"
>
> (Just an example of how executable name "hack" is very limited compared
> to standard practices).

Following this reasoning further we should use:

  pdftex -fmt=latex ...

but I rather use the current solution. Or to give yet another example
- the whole idea of the universal script launcher on Windows is based
on finding the right script based on argv[0]. Otherwise you would have
to call them as:

  runscript foobar ...

It is workable (tex4ht takes this approach with mk4ht) but not very
convenient, IMO.

Cheers,

Tomek