[NTG-context] installing MKIV

[Peter Rolf]

Hans Hagen schrieb:
> Peter Rolf wrote:
>> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>>>> luac5.1.exe [TO] luac.exe
>>>> etc.
>>>   Alternatively, you can use LuaTeX itself as the lua interpreter and
>>> compiler. That is, the same binary will act as:
>>>
>>>   LuaTeX proper when called luatex(.exe)
>>>   lua when called texlua(.exe) (equivalent to luatex --luaonly)
>>>   luac, the compiler, when called texluac.(exe)
>>>
>>>   So you don't even need lua anymore.
>> i see. but on windows you waste more than 7mb disk space this way.
>> installing the lua binaries costs only 288kb. so where is the benefit?
>>
>> there must be a better way.
> 
> these 7 meg gave as advantage
> 
> - no need to install anything else (no huge ruby/perl or whatever)
> - bytcode compiler in sync with luatex internals
> - texlua has the libs that we need built in
>
i see the advantages :)

it's just that i don't see the need for three identical files, when you
can use one with different (mode switching) parameters. yes, i know.
it's an early beta.

> alternatives:
> 
> -- texlua.cmd --
> 
> @echo off
> setlocal
> set ownpath=%~dp0%
> "%ownpath%luatex" --luaonly %*
> endlocal
>
this one is already in my bin dir. but i couldn't find a similar
parameter for texluac. also my tries with 'junction' (a sysinternals
tool for creating links) didn't succeed. the created links were not found.

> and similar for texluac
> 
> Hans
> 
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