[tlbuild] tl24 build plans

[Johannes Hielscher]

Am Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:56:33 +0900
schrieb Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>:

> But, it would great if you could give the binaries I linked to a spin,
> just basic functionality test would already be great, some pdftex run
> or so.

\offtopic{%
"texlive-bin-aarch64-linux.tar.gz.zip"
(I'm not afraid of the robot apocalypse, as long as the machines are
still convinced that zipping tarballs is a good idea.)}

The GitHub Actions binaries worked fine on real hardware. Your
pdflatex processed a test document (262 pages of witty kantlipsum with
microtype enabled) within 21.8 s.
Just out of curiosity, my own binaries needed 20.9 s; on modern
x86_64 hardware the same test regularly takes less than 4 seconds. On a
side note, I'd be very curious to have some numbers from Apple silicon
(Asahi and/or Mac OS).

Your GitHub binaries are a tiny bit smaller than mine (on average 4%).
I've seen that we don't have asy and xindy there? But not having those
is not a show-stopper (unless someone speaks up).




Am Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:55:34 -0700
schrieb Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:

> I think Norbert's idea that automated is easier makes sense, instead
> of taking up your time (+ mental bandwidth :) for it.

I'm entirely fine with using the pipeline artifact binaries (for
exactly that reason). Just want to let you know that this won't make me
stop keeping an eye on the builds on my side.


Best,
Johannes