tl2020 pretest begin

[khzimmer at posteo.de]

Hi,

just wondering: Did somebody else test installing on Windows 10?

I forgot to mention, my test box runs on Win 10, so perhaps that's the 
reason for the error?

I had started installation (as a user, not as admin) by double-clicking 
the install exe file, and made no extra modifications in the GUI.

Cheers
Karl-Heinz

Am 03.03.2020 14:12 schrieb khzimmer at posteo.de:
> Hi Karl,
> 
> just tried installing this test version of tl2020 (after uninstalling
> tl2018) in a windows machine here.
> 
> Installation ended with this output:
> 
> | mktexlsr: Done.
> | C:/Users/(user
> name)/texlife-2020-pretest/install-tl/install-tl-20200303/install-tl:
> mkdir(//(PC name)/) failed for tree \\(PC name)\profile$\(user
> name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs/TeX Live
> 2020: No such file or directory at C:/Users/(user
> name)/texlife-2020-pretest/install-tl/install-tl-20200303/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm
> line 928.
> 
> Is that a known error?
> 
> Also, I can start TeXworks, but when trying to run lualatex it does
> not succeed but it ends with this:
> 
> | Running the command C:\texlive\2020\bin\win32\fmtutil-user.exe
> | This is LuaTeX, Version 1.12.0 (TeX Live 2020/W32TeX)
> |  restricted system commands enabled.
> | I can't find the format file `lualatex.fmt'!
> 
> Cheers,
> Karl-Heinz
> 
> 
> Am 03.03.2020 03:09 schrieb Karl Berry:
>> I think the pretest area is populated with the first build for TL 
>> 2020.
>> See https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html as usual for details of how 
>> to
>> install (unchanged from previous years), and the list of notable 
>> changes
>> that I've got so far. Additions or corrections to the news are greatly
>> appreciated.
>> 
>> I have not caught up with the CTAN releases over the past few days. I
>> expect all of those to be updated in the pretest over the next day or 
>> two.
>> 
>> The binaries for a few of the platforms (cygwin, armhf-linux,
>> i386-netbsd) have not yet been updated. I expect that to happen soon
>> also.  All others are current AFAIK.
>> 
>> BTW, as discussed in the LaTeX newsletters and other places, lualatex 
>> in
>> the pretest now invokes the luahbtex engine, as lualatex-dev did for 
>> the
>> last couple months in TL19.
>> 
>> Please try it if you can. Better to test now than wait for breakage in
>> the official release. We have no dedicated testers or QA department, 
>> so
>> it's all up to us collectively as volunteers.
>> 
>> Hope it flies,
>> Karl