[tex-live] [MacTeX] MacTeX-2013 and BasicTeX-2013 Pretest Versions

[Persian TeX Group]

It is because of the new version of lua included in luatex[1]; all lualatex
packages are broken. Eli Roux is working to fix the issue.

[1] http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2012-December/003983.html


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>wrote:

>
> On Apr 14, 2013, at 10:42 PM, Richard Koch <koch at math.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Karl Berry suggested putting BasicTeX on the TUG tlpretest site, on the
> > grounds that the uoregon.edu site is slow for some people.
> >
> > I just did that, and I'm uploading the full MacTeX package as well.
> >
> >       mactex-basictex-2013.pkg
> >       mactex-2013.pkg
> >
> > Both titles start with mactex because scripts for other platforms
> > contain instructions to ignore "mactex….".
> >
> > I installed MacTeX-2013 on all supported
> > platforms:
> >
> >       Leopard PPC
> >       Leopard Intel
> >       Snow Leopard
> >       Lion
> >       Mountain Lion
> >
> > There were no problems. Recall that the user inteface has some
> > quirks on Leopard, claiming to install "local-1" and "local-2"
> > rather than specific packages. Packages install fine and the
> > quirk is due to the age of the Apple Install software on Leopard.
> >
> > After installing, I ran a 220 page document with lots of illustrations
> > of different types through pdfLatex, and through Latex + DVI.
> > This worked fine on all Intel platforms. So while I'd appreciate
> > installing on a variety of platforms, we can probably concentrate
> > on TeX Live itself, including unusual programs like
> > LuaTeX and XeTeX which I did not test.
> >
> > My test also worked on Leopard PPC except that Ghostscript
> > refused to run on that platform. Testing reveals that both
> > gs-X11 and gs-noX11 fail immediately. I'll look into this.
> >
> > Recall that it can take up to a day for packages uploaded to
> > tug.org to appear on mirror sites.
> >
> > Give these install packages to anyone remotely interested. The
> > more testing, the better.
> >
> > Dick Koch
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> After having lots of success with TeX Live 2013 (pretest) I finally have
> discovered that something in LuaLaTeX seems to be broken. I get rather ugly
> things like
>
> oberdiek.luatex.lua:55: bad
> argument #1 to 'insert' (table expected, got nil)
> stack traceback:
>         [C]: in function 'insert'
>         ...ive/2013/texmf-dist/scripts/oberdiek/oberdiek.luatex.lua:55: in
> main chunk
>         [C]: in function 'dofile'
>         [string "\directlua "]:6: in main chunk.
> l.139   }
>        %
> ?
>
> and
>
> luatexbase-loader.sty:
> 89: LuaTeX error
> ...3/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luatexbase/luatexbase.loader.lua:53:
>  attempt to index field 'loaders' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
>         ...3/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/luatexbase/luatexbase.loader.lua:53: in
> main chunk
>         [C]: in function 'dofile'
>         [string "\directlua "]:1: in main chunk.
> l.89   dofile(path)}
>
> ?
>
> when attempting to typeset a sample, but non-trivial (e.g., Hello World)
> document.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
>
>
>


-- 
Sincerely yours,
Persian TeX Group
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