Nngh. That's the new fancy parser, triggered by using VERSION and such in the tp2, right?
Almost always using it, if so... haven't noticed anything weirder than usual.
Having some "chinese values of interesting" trouble installing scsii though. "Smarter mages" failing when I've installed a whole bunch of other components in the same session, but succeeding if I quit the session, restart weinstall and install that component on its own. Which smells like weidu trouble. That's from earlier in the 208 series, though.
Can't reproduce with 20800, can with 20833 (earliest post-208.00 I have), can with 20842. You want a debug file or other debug output?