Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals and TEXMFCACHE

In article <4C782D26.6040905@wxs.nl>, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 27-8-2010 8:17, Nicola wrote:

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In article , Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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TEXMFCACHE is not used by MKII (neither in pdfTeX nor in XeTeX).

Right. I have tried

unset TEXMFCACHE texexec hello.tex

in the command line and it just runs texexec (as expected).

Sorry, my mistake. If I unset TEXMFCACHE, then mtxrun is run also from the command line and the behaviour is consistent with what happens from TeXShop - which, in turn, is consistent with what Hans explains below.

we used to have texmfstart as script runner (all scripts are located and started by a runner which is faster than using some kpse locator esp when having nested runs as with metafun in mkii)

so, texexec used to be

texmfstart texexec

however, nowadays mtxrun is the runner and it replaces texmfstart for mkii as well and in order to do this, it needs the file database and that one ends up in the cache so even for mkii there is a cache needed (when I'm in the mood I'll check the lua texutil variant in which case we can also kick out ruby which is currently only needed for mkii)

Hans

Everything is clear now. Thank you! Nicola