[tlbuild] update to xetex - please rebuild if possible
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Sun Jul 13 19:22:13 CEST 2008
is functionally identical except for the potential non-portability of
formats, so it isn't a critical issue.
Actually, it is a critical issue, since otherwise sites with
multiplatform installs are dead in the water.
Coincidentally (?), we also just discovered that pdftex .fmt's were
likewise unportable (for completely different reasons). A fix for that
has been committed.
But please hold off on rebuilds until we've done a bit more testing and
I issue another call. Later today I hope.
Next year we will test this *first* :).
(BTW, LuaTeX .fmt's are also unportable; that won't be fixed for this
release, it's yet another separate issue, much deeper in that case --
using Lua bytecode, which is inherently system-dependent.)
Thanks,
k
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