I second Andrea's opinion -- I'm also looking forward to a

straightforward way of updating ConTeXt and kin.  I'm comfortable with

  ctxtools --updatecontext, 

but much less comfortable updating binaries and fonts, based on my

experience screwing up my installation; a nice Mac OS X interface to

deal with all these would be great.  How about allowing installation of

modules from http://modules.contextgarden.net, too?

(I admit that there's probably a good deal of FUD here on my part and

it's not as complicated as I think it is.  My guess, though, is that I'm

not alone.)

Jesse

Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it> writes:

Wow, much needed.

Looking forward to see it.

Best

-a-

On 11 Jun 2008, at 18:05, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

    On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Andrea Valle wrote:

        Hi Oliver,

        I've already assembled a working ConTeXt package based on the minimals

        that installs via the Apple installer. In other words, it will provide

        the same seamless installation experience to the user as known from

        the MacTeX package and, in fact, as known from any decent Mac

        software.

        Fantastic. Exactly what I need. But will you include TeXShop?

    You can use the existing TeXShop or any other editor. Besides that, in

    summer or autumn a new cross-platform editor by Jonathan Kew will be

    available.

        Will the tex

        file system be local (i.e. separated from the usual locations) ?

    You will be able to use PreferencePane to select whether you want to

    use MacTeX or ConTeXt minimals (and which version), and that will be

    done globally. /usr/texbin will be a symlink to binaries.

    Mojca

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Think of it as seasoning

. noise [salt] is boring

. F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring

. F(noise, blah) can be really tasty

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