tl2020 pretest begin

[khzimmer at posteo.de]

Hi Karl,

just tried installing this test version of tl2020 (after uninstalling 
tl2018) in a windows machine here.

Installation ended with this output:

| mktexlsr: Done.
| C:/Users/(user 
name)/texlife-2020-pretest/install-tl/install-tl-20200303/install-tl: 
mkdir(//(PC name)/) failed for tree \\(PC name)\profile$\(user 
name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs/TeX Live 
2020: No such file or directory at C:/Users/(user 
name)/texlife-2020-pretest/install-tl/install-tl-20200303/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm 
line 928.

Is that a known error?

Also, I can start TeXworks, but when trying to run lualatex it does not 
succeed but it ends with this:

| Running the command C:\texlive\2020\bin\win32\fmtutil-user.exe
| This is LuaTeX, Version 1.12.0 (TeX Live 2020/W32TeX)
|  restricted system commands enabled.
| I can't find the format file `lualatex.fmt'!

Cheers,
Karl-Heinz


Am 03.03.2020 03:09 schrieb Karl Berry:
> I think the pretest area is populated with the first build for TL 2020.
> See https://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html as usual for details of how to
> install (unchanged from previous years), and the list of notable 
> changes
> that I've got so far. Additions or corrections to the news are greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> I have not caught up with the CTAN releases over the past few days. I
> expect all of those to be updated in the pretest over the next day or 
> two.
> 
> The binaries for a few of the platforms (cygwin, armhf-linux,
> i386-netbsd) have not yet been updated. I expect that to happen soon
> also.  All others are current AFAIK.
> 
> BTW, as discussed in the LaTeX newsletters and other places, lualatex 
> in
> the pretest now invokes the luahbtex engine, as lualatex-dev did for 
> the
> last couple months in TL19.
> 
> Please try it if you can. Better to test now than wait for breakage in
> the official release. We have no dedicated testers or QA department, so
> it's all up to us collectively as volunteers.
> 
> Hope it flies,
> Karl