Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] mkII with minimals
Hi, As Alan wrote, it seems there are continuous problems with both the minimals and the context mkiv distribution currently. Is there anything I myself can do to help out?
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:12, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi,
As Alan wrote, it seems there are continuous problems with both the minimals and the context mkiv distribution currently. Is there anything I myself can do to help out?
I fixed texmf.cnf (sorry, I fell asleep yesterday), but I cannot do anything about mkiv bugs before we start supporting falling back to arbitrary ConTeXt version. What about the following possibility? We could set up some repository (whatever - svn/git/anything) with all the versions, including all experimental and beta versions. Those users that would need it could place a copy into texmf-local and switch between ConTeXt versions arbitrary. A script on server could commit versions to that repository. I have a feeling that somebody on the list already has such a repository, but even if we start from scratch that should be OK. I could have start storing all the experimental versions, full-blown, on the server, but that would be a killing consumer of space, most probably adding some 100MB on the server every day. (Another option to explore is Hans' proposal which probably needs some tools on user side.) Mojca
I have a feeling that somebody on the list already has such a repository
There is the ConTeXt revisions repository at the Supélec foundry (http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/), but I don't have the impression that Taco maintains it any more.
I could have start storing all the experimental versions, full-blown, on the server, but that would be a killing consumer of space, most probably adding some 100MB on the server every day.
I do have quite a lot of ConTeXt zips on my laptop, which I've been collecting since approximately one year (probably not all, but definitely a lot). It is big, but not that terrible (1.7GB). The main ConTeXt zip is only 7MB after all. Of course, it is around 30MB uncompressed. Arthur
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
I have a feeling that somebody on the list already has such a repository
There is the ConTeXt revisions repository at the Supélec foundry (http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/), but I don't have the impression that Taco maintains it any more.
there will be a tex live release (current) which then results in an update ... simply too many changes to mkiv to bother with release notes now ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
I have a feeling that somebody on the list already has such a repository
There is the ConTeXt revisions repository at the Supélec foundry (http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/), but I don't have the impression that Taco maintains it any more.
Only 'current' releases are there right now, no betas are kept.
I do have quite a lot of ConTeXt zips on my laptop, which I've been collecting since approximately one year (probably not all, but definitely a lot). It is big, but not that terrible (1.7GB). The main ConTeXt zip is only 7MB after all. Of course, it is around 30MB uncompressed.
A branch with all the beta's you have (perhaps since the last current) would be useful at this stage, I think. If you can upload them to the FRS section of the museum (you should have permission to do so already), I can will them to the SVN Repo afterwards. Best wishes, Taco
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 13:04, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
I have a feeling that somebody on the list already has such a repository
There is the ConTeXt revisions repository at the Supélec foundry (http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/), but I don't have the impression that Taco maintains it any more.
Only 'current' releases are there right now, no betas are kept.
No, I think that someone from far East has some git repository with every experimental version included. Maybe that's Xan, but I'm not sure. Mojca
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