On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hi,
I did take it as a joke, but seriously: if any user of the live ConTeXt would like to see some changes, please tell me. I know that running the installer more often is nothing major, but just in case anybody misses a special feature... I can't promise that it would be done right away, but I'd write it down and implement it when I find some time.
is it possible to install current as well as the beta and let users choose via a radio button?
I don't distinguish between stable and beta. I always install the latest, but I could implement a menu/button that chooses the installed version.
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. Aditya