Re: [NTG-context] Trouble with latest...

On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 19:08:54 -0700 Alan Braslau via ntg-context wrote:

On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 18:40:08 +0100 Alain Delmotte via ntg-context wrote:

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Anytime a new upload is announced, I download the context-win64.zip unpack it and run install.bat and setpath.bat.

Is it a fresh installation? Or should I from time to time erase my installation and run install.bat to create a new distribution?

This is not a *fresh* install. In fact, you can simply run ./install.bat - there is no need to download context-win64.zip.

Having said that, the latest problem with the update has to do with an updated luametatex binary, so your method might have worked by updating the binary with the unzip, even if it is not a "fresh" install.

For information: I tried updating by downloading a fresh zip and unpacking it over an existing installation, then running ./install.bat. This failed with the latest upload, although unzipping to a new location and running ./install.bat resulting in a good, updated distribution. The install/update and mtxrun scripts could possibly be improved to 1. start by updating the luametatex binary in a first step, then rerunning to update the rest of the distribution; 2. systematically clear the luametatex-cache upon update (I believe that this is a small price to pay for robustness). However, such changes clearly are not a priority to work out, for now. Alan