[metapost] Metapost 0.970 beta released (call for testers)

[Stephan Hennig]

Taco Hoekwater schrieb:

>    https://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=13&release_id=177
> 
> There is a source distribution available, and also binary
> packages for linux and win32 (cross-compiled using mingw32).

Did anybody manage to run the new windows executable on source files
with MiKTeX?

>mpost  -version

runs fine and prints version information.  But compiling files fails.

>metapost-0.970\windows-bin>mpost -tex=tex test.mp
>This is MetaPost, Version 0.970 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mpost.mem
>mpost.exe: fatal: kpathsea: CreateProcess() failed for `mktexfmt "ÏS>"' (Error 2
>)
>.

test.mp is attached.  I remember a similar problem with the 0.901
executable and waiting for Christian Schenk updating MiKTeX to the new
version _is_ an option for me.  Taco, don't bother with this.  Thanks
for you work on MetaPost!

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig


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