[tlbuild] rebuild please

Robert Alessi alessi at robertalessi.net
Sat Mar 8 08:47:28 CET 2025


On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 04:31:15PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > It may take more work than expected.  As far as OpenBSD is concerned,
> > perhaps I think I would better wait before including context.  The
> 
> We cannot disable formats based on the OS. I am not even sure we can
> remove the binary runners since we need them fro context II and IV, too.
> So... I guess you have to live with it.

As TL for OpenBSD remains a custom release, I think context can be
included when the problem I may be the only one to have is fixed.  But
what you are saying makes me think that mkii and mkiv actually work in
OpenBSD.  So maybe it is worth leaving context as it is and issuing a
warning.

Best,

-- Robert

> > idea being that from a user's perspective no context is probably
> > better than a broken one.
> 
> There is such a long tradition of broken context releases, that I think
> nobody is surprised about it.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Norbert
> 
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