[tex-live] Packaging biblatex-ext: blxextdoiapi.lua in wrong directory

[Moritz Wemheuer]

Hi everybody,

it seems that the new file blxextdoiapi.lua of biblatex-ext got
installed into ./texmf-dist/doc/latex/biblatex-ext/. That file provides
a runtime Lua module that is called from a .sty file and so it should
live in a directory where it can be found, I assume
./texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-ext/ would be a better fit.

Please move blxextdoiapi.lua from the doc directory into where it can be
found as a runtime file.

Is there anything I as the package developer could do to avoid these
kind of confusions over the correct place for a file in the future
(short of uploading a TDS zip to CTAN)?

Moritz

[Martin Sievers]

Post by Moritz Wemheuer
./texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-ext/ would be a better fit.

I guess, it would rather be ./texmf-dist/tex/luatex/biblatex-ext/

Best regards
Martin

[Moritz Wemheuer]

Post by Martin Sievers

Post by Moritz Wemheuer
./texmf-dist/tex/latex/biblatex-ext/ would be a better fit.

I guess, it would rather be ./texmf-dist/tex/luatex/biblatex-ext/

I'll defer to your judgement and that of the other experts on that one.
As long as the file is found I'm OK with anything that makes sense, but
I notice that for fontspec we have
./texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.lua and for microtype
./texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/microtype.lua

[Karl Berry]

Please move blxextdoiapi.lua from the doc directory into where it can be
found as a runtime file.

Thanks, done for tonight.

Is there anything I as the package developer could do to avoid these
kind of confusions over the correct place for a file in the future

1) Add a note in the README. But even more likely in this case, with an
already-extant package:

2) When adding a new runtime .lua (or other "nonstandard"-extension)
file to the package, include a note about it when you upload to CTAN.
The CTAN people are good about passing on such notes to Christan and me.

Thanks for all,
Karl

P.S. By "nonstandard" I mean that .sty, .cls, .?bx, code.tex, .ldf,
etc., etc., are all included in the runtime by default, so there is no
need to worry about them. (ref: $standardtex in tlpkg/libexe/ctan2tds.)

I can't install .lua by default because .lua files are often supposed to
end up in different places, e.g., for scripts, or just for doc building, etc.

[Moritz Wemheuer]

Post by Moritz Wemheuer
Please move blxextdoiapi.lua from the doc directory into where it can be
found as a runtime file.
Thanks, done for tonight.

Thank you very much.

Post by Moritz Wemheuer
2) When adding a new runtime .lua (or other "nonstandard"-extension)
file to the package, include a note about it when you upload to CTAN.
The CTAN people are good about passing on such notes to Christan and me.

Very good, I'll try to keep that in mind.

Moritz