2006/12/10, Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi,
I have good news as well as bad news.
The good news is that the coming TeXLive will be nicely up to date when it comes to ConTeXt (currently at 2006.12.07).
In fact, I believe we should consider retracting ConTeXt from TeXLive perminently (for TL2007, we have already made promises for TL2006).
Hans and I are continually asked to rename or delete things
- because the names conflict with some latex package (that is invariably considered to be more inportant than ConTeXt), or - because they allegedly duplicate already existing files (that normally turns out to be false information afterward), or - because some directory name is already pre-opted by LaTeX (like where LaTeX font family support effectively disallows ConTeXt support for that same family), or - because something cannot be handled by the build scripts (that nobody is willing to even allow changes to), or - because they are considered to have an unacceptable license (heaven/FSF forbid shipping files that cannot be altered by everybody and their 4-year old child and then be redistributed at will).
After a few years of this, I am completely demotivated, and I assume Hans feels much the same way.
If ConTeXt would be removed from TL, this would be a very sad day for the TeX community (and maybe TL should be renamed to LaTeXLive then). I can understand your burn out, but I'm a bit surprised as I didn't find much discussion recently about this on the TL mailing list. I trust you have discussed this ad nauseam with Karl? Best Martin