On 10/15/22 09:41, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
On 10/14/2022 4:14 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
[...] Many thanks for the new version, Hans.
I have discovered that it includes in tex/texmf-context/source/luametatex what should be the LMTX source (about 11MB).
It zips to 2 MB and totals to less of a picture on a fancy phone ...
Many thanks for your reply, Hans. At least on my system, I think every file is downloaded uncompressed. With a low speed connection (here, the service isn’t great all the time), having to download over 400 files is a killer. The storage space on disk is irrelevant, I totally agree with you. I wish I could say that large updates such as these weren’t a problem in some cases. But sometimes this isn’t true here. With incremental updates, the downloading process takes way shorter in subsequent updates (as Alan pointed out). But the first time it might take too much (so the script quits).
the idea is to provide the user with all he needs as archive so no dependencies (apart from a compiler). Also by including the source we can sort of guaranteed that you get what you expect to work with the tex files (no interference with distribution patches our of our control). It has always been part of the plan with luametatex. So ... it will not be optional.
I asked to make this optional not to avoid having the source, but to be able to complete the update process. I’m not extremely confident, but I hope I will manage to update ConTeXt at the office (next working day). Many thanks for your help, Pablo