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26 Nov
2020
26 Nov
'20
1 p.m.
Thanks for your interesting and very helpful reply Mojca. It's given me lots to think about. Best wishes Keith McKay On 26/11/2020 18:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 16:26, Keith McKay wrote: >> I was planning on getting the new entry level MAC min M1 with 8GB >> unified memory but I see that there will be no ConTeXt binaries for >> these new M1 chip Macs. > It's not that there will not be, it's just that none of us has > purchased a piece of hardware yet. > > A few months back it was possible to purchase one, but: > - it was just a one year rental fee rather than the ability to purchase it > - definitely not available in my country > - one had to enrol to the payed developer program > - and then do a bunch of other bureaucracy (get some special business > number etc.) > - and it wasn't even guaranteed that you would get a device at the end > > I was contemplating what to do this time around since 8 GB of memory > is not even sufficient to run a web browser, and the TeX Live hardly > fits on their drive :), but it should do the job purely as a build > machine. (Not that they have "none in stock", but I could smuggle one > from elsewhere as long as the postal services keep running ...) > >> Would it be possible for a ConTeXt user like >> myself to build the binaries on my proposed new Mac? I'm not a computer >> professional. > There are three options: > - the existing Intel binaries should work just fine > - yes, you should be able to compile the binaries yourself > - we should eventually get hold of one device for our build farm, or > in the meantime just ask someone for the initial build which should > keep you covered for a while > > Discussing when TeX Live will be available for arm is "out of > context". We should get those binaries working before TL 2021. > > Mojca > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________