https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426392 User burnus@gmx.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426392#c20 --- Comment #20 from Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de> 2008-10-30 04:20:18 MDT ---
IMHO all paths including the path to the configuration file and also the path to $TEXMFLOCAL, $TEXMFSYSCONFIG, $TEXMFCONFIG, $TEXMFMAIN, and $TEXMFDIST should determind by using KPSE .. otherwise the KPSE will become useless and the paths are hardcoded.
I don't see the need for the other paths as they are set in the config file; and whether one reads the cnf file using texlua or via kpse does not really matter. For finding the config file, one has to hardcode - or use some pseudo-intelligent algorithm as luatools.lua does. I see the reason for not using KPSE which is very inflexible, slower and does not support reading of files in ZIPs, from URLs etc. I'm also quite agnostic how to solve this, whether using KPSE as my patch did, hard coding of the paths (as done for the binaries/kpsewhich in "source.dif"), or using Hans' search algorithm as long it works (most of the time). (Hans rules out that he will KPSE, if you want you can join the ntg-context mailing list and discuss there.) Independent of the kind of solution, I would like to see a working "luatools" in openSUSE's TeX Live 2008. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.