Re: LuaTeX >= 0.85 support

[Gavin Smith]

On 17 February 2016 at 22:41, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> If it were up to me, I would simply declare LuaTeX unsupported at least
> until 1.0.  It seems that tracking Hans's changes from now on will imply
> a huge investment of time and effort, let alone doing it in a compatible
> way so that people not running the bleeding edge will keep working as
> well.  I don't see that the return is worth it.  But of course, if you
> want to, more power to you!

If LuaTeX breaks compatibility with earlier LuaTeX files, then it
seems acceptable in some sense not to support older versions of
LuaTeX. If LuaTeX is stable at some point, then I'd have no problem
with removing support for any earlier versions of LuaTeX. As Karl
said, there's no harm if you want to keep on updating to track
LuaTeX's changes.