On 10/5/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Hans, can ctxtools be modified to give the option of downloading both the stable and latest branch? --updatecontext gives the beta which, being a beta, has occasional bugs. So this method of updating context can not be recommended to new users. How about adding
ctxtools --updatecontext --stable to give the stable branch, or instead make fetching the stable branch default and give --beta to download the beta. Maybe even extract everything with --beta to TEXMFBETA folder so that maintaining beta and stable in parallel is seamless. Right now there is texexec --beta for running the beta, but then you have to maintain the beta tree manually.
I would support all that you said (separate tree for beta, --update --beta, ...) Well, the very first bad experience that I had on other computers when trying to update ConTeXt with "--update": (un)zip as a command-line executable is usually missing on just any windows computer, so newbies have to overcome that one first :( Mojca