On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec
some time ago some MikTeX users have complained that ConTeXt doesn't work on MikTeX. It seems to be a problem with MikTeX itself since this workaround seems to solve the problem, at least temporary: ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" texexec
I'm not so quick to blame MiKTeX -- I suspect texmfstart.rb would need to provide some path searching tailored to MiKTeX. It seems to rely on $0 with a tetex/texlive directory structure where SELFAUTOPARENT can be used. The only criticism of MiKTeX is that it is silly to distribute a broken package, but then it is up to ConTeXt users to report breakage and, ideally, supply fixes.
(But apparently there are not many MikTeX users on the list anyway. Else more would have complained.)
Don't complain, just switch to a platform/distro where ConTeXt works
and use mpm (since few others provide updates with the speed and
convenience of MiKTeX).
I think MiKTeX should remain focusing on the packages and binaries,
and rely on upstream to fix broken packages.
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George N. White III