luatex: request for port removal

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

I bet that Patrick is using a slightly more up-to-date version of LuaTeX than @0.65 by now ;)

While the port could easily be upgraded to the latest version of LuaTeX, I bet that no-one is using it, otherwise there would be at least one update request. TeX Live 2013 provides all the latest & greatest features of LuaTeX by now.

Any objections to port removal?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

TeX Live 2013 provides all the latest & greatest features of LuaTeX by now.

So do they conflict with one another then?

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Yes, they do, they both provide ${prefix}/bin/luatex, but that's not a real problem. The idea was being able to install just a tiny binary instead of the whole gigantic package. But it makes no sense to keep providing an ancient binary along with the latest one bundled in TeX Live. If anyone will need just luatex again some time in future, he/she can create a package again. But I doubt that are many people like Patrick who know what to do with the binary alone without the extra gigabyte of fonts and packages.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to mojca@…:

Yes, they do, they both provide ${prefix}/bin/luatex, but that's not a real problem.

If they install the same files, they should explicitly conflict with each other.

The idea was being able to install just a tiny binary instead of the whole gigantic package. But it makes no sense to keep providing an ancient binary along with the latest one bundled in TeX Live. If anyone will need just luatex again some time in future, he/she can create a package again.

Or they could install texlive-luatex, which isn’t as minimal but is still smaller than texlive.

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Yeah, we should probably remove this port to reduce confusion with texlive-luatex; it is almost certainly not what people are looking for. If there are people who are looking for a barebones installation of texlua, it probably isn't this old version, and I haven't heard anyone clamoring for it to be updated.

(Not that it matters, but texlive-basic also includes a minimal luatex installation because it's required for some scripts; you don't even need texlive-luatex.)

[patrick@…]

I would remove this port. I don't see anybody using this now or in the future.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Thank you. I removed it in r108370.