CTAN Update: l3build

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at ctan.org
Thu Jan 11 19:28:42 CET 2018


The LaTeX Team  submitted an update to the

                l3build

package.

Version:  2018-01-10
License:  lppl1.3c

Summary description:  A testing and building system for (La)TeX

Announcement text:
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 Release 2018-01-10

  - Fix issue with "recordstatus"

  - Rationalise short option names: removed -d, -E, -r

  - Remove cmdcheck target: specific to LaTeX3 kernel work

  - New target "manifest" for construction of file manifests
    automatically

  - New "auxfiles" variable

  - New --textmfhome option to allow customisation of
    local installation

  - New --dry-run option for installation

  - Sort list of tests to avoid system-dependent ordering

  - New --shuffle option to run tests in a random order

  - Split l3build into multiple files for improved maintenance

  - Internal improvements

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/l3build

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/l3build/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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