Re: [NTG-context] distro info

Hi Jesse,

1. What's the difference between getting the texmf tree using rsync, as you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext? Are those equivalent?

You might read the underneath thread from here on, as well as its later posts... http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080620.070341.aca1fbd9.en.html Maybe this short one also... http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080621.153103.9fcfc856.en.html Hope this helps, Alan On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Jesse Alama wrote:

"Mojca Miklavec" writes:

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On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jesse Alama wrote:

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"Thomas A. Schmitz" writes:

The basis for my own comments in this thread do not lie in a preference for graphical tools, but rather for a straightforward way to stay up-to-date with the whole of ConTeXt in a way that ctxtools does not currently provide. A command-line interface for that would be great, and so would a graphical tool.

That's not a general solution, but if you need it for yourself, you can put the following to some file and execute it whenever you want:

rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/beta/ /path/to/your/texmf/ rsync -av rsync:// contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux/bin/ /path/to/your/binaries/ etc.

There's a limited set of folders that you need to update, and it will only update new files, you don't need to update everything.

Two questions:

1. What's the difference between getting the texmf tree using rsync, as you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext? Are those equivalent?

2. It looks like the subdirectories that I want are

common context luatex man metapost

if I want to follow only luatex development. (The only subdirectories that aren't in that list are mswin, which doesn't apply to me, and pdftex and xetex.) I'd like to just put this on top of my TeXLive (2007) distribution. Once I copy thse binaries to my TeXLive binary directory, what's the next step? Do I need to rebuild the ConTeXt format, for example?

What I'm looking for is a way to keep up-to-date with ConTeXt and LuaTeX development; I'd rather not keep a separate installation with all and only ConTeXt in it, together with a shell script that sets up *only* ConTeXt. I'm happy to keep up-to-date by overwriting the relevant parts of my TeXLive distribution with the freshest texmf and binaries. That way, within a single shell I can use the freshest ConTeXt as well as LaTeX and pacakges from the TeX Collection. Perhaps I am going against the intention of the "minimal installation"; but the discussion of how to get a minimal ConTeXt installation overlaps with the discussion of how to stay up-to-date. I'm more interested in the latter than the former. Perhaps the best thing for such a user would be to just track the TeXLive development tree using cvs or rsync. I'm curious to hear any suggetions.

Thanks,

Jesse

-- Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu)