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By the way, all POSIX-like opearting systems including BSDs and linux distributions share one way of making system packages.
For all POSIX-like operating systems, a simple Makefile can build LuaMetaTex. Since each linux distribution may have a slightly different directory structure, it would be beneficial for ConTeXt to document contextcnf.lua and where each ConTeXt directory can be installed.
I don't know much about Mac OS, but my guess is that if we take care of POSIX-like operating systems, we take care of Mac, too.
As far as I know, there is no packaging standard for windows.
Thus, you should only worry about the POSIX way in theory.
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On Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 at 3:42 PM, Hans Hagen
On 8/17/2022 3:09 PM, amano.kenji wrote:
* Will TexLive replace its own ConTeXt Mark IV with ConTeXt LMTX?
at some point we will switch to lmtx and mkiv is than just there and can be used but basically it is frozen (already for a while, apart from fixes).
* context lmtx binary installer archive is not versioned. I can't use unversioned archives in OS packages.
at some point (all depends on time and effort and ...) the source wil be part of the context distribution so then one can compile
* Is it actually possible to present a separate override file for contextcnf.lua? If not, I would need to patch contextcnf.lua, or contextcnf.lua should support both portable installation and OS-level installation.
you can put one in texmf-local (as the mtxrun --generate i posted trace shows)
* Can you make it easier to make an OS package for ConTeXt LMTX by releasing versioned (source) archives, including BUILD/INSTALL instructions in the versioned archives, and so on? I wish I could just extract a versioned binary archive into certain locations or use GNU autotools or use meson build system which is far better than GNU autotools.
there is a github repository for the tex stuff and have no experience with all that versioning / release / os packaging stuff (couldn't test it anyway and continuously adapt to teh subtle differences in distributions and os's) ... we just post zips (already for decades) but anyone is free to come up with such instructions (e.g. aditya did some for arch)
anyway, lmtx is still kind of experimental and at some point installation will move to the garden (not much is needed, just a web server) and the packaging scripts are / will be in the distribution .. there are no dependencies (and we keep it that way: self contained bins)
sorry, i just can't spent time on all the possible variant ways of installation .. that is up to volunteers
While portable installations can be great for testing bleeding edge features and keeping up with latest development, most of the time, I prefer OS package releases.
I never use an os tex release .. who knows whaty has been done with it .. esp when one has a long term workflow (e.g. fonts can change)
Hans
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