[Therion] new Therion 5.5.0

[Benedikt Hallinger]

Thanks for clarifying, i could imagine this is good for version control 
too :)

Am 2020-05-01 23:30, schrieb Olly Betts:
> On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:22:31PM +0200, Benedikt Hallinger wrote:
>> what does --reproducible-output exactly do?
>> i cannot derive this from the thbook. What does reproducible mean?
> 
> It means that the output is exactly (bit-for-bit) determined by the
> input.  For example, Therion uses pseudo-random numbers for drawing 
> some
> symbols so we need to seed the random number generator the same way to
> get a reproducible output.
> 
> For normal Therion use, non-reproducible output probably doesn't matter
> (though sometimes you might prefer that the rocks don't move just
> because you regenerated the PDF), but it's very useful for getting
> Therion packages to build reproducibly because Therion itself is used 
> to
> generate output for the examples as part of the build.
> 
> There's been a move over the last few years to make Free and Open
> Source Software build reproducibly - for example, the majority of
> packages in Debian now do:
> 
> https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/unstable/amd64/stats_pkg_state.png
> 
> If you're wondering why that's a good thing, some motivations are
> covered here:
> 
> https://reproducible-builds.org/
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly