Re: [NTG-context] Homebrew packaging for macOS

On 7 Oct 2018, at 01:32, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/7/2018 1:24 AM, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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Dear list, Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see https://brew.sh)? Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version.

How do you now update? It's just one recall to first-setup.sh

It would be better to put the development version in TeXLive as a separate package—on MacOS, it comes with the TeX Live Utility which gives update notifications frequently, once a week, but one can run it more frequently by hand. Just give it a different name than from the ordinary distribution, say context-<version>. When I used the beta, it was difficult to switch with other TeX software. So this might be better.