Hi Mojca,
Thank you for clarifying a few things.
I have not seen any information how to contribute modules to ConTeXt or how they
are passed up the stream!
A few caveats though!
1) Who „authorizes“ ConTeXt modules for CTAN ?
2) Do not CTAN and TeXLive have pretty much the same guidelines?
3) Who gets to decide what is really „Useful“ ?
I did not mean to say do not use TDS! Besides, one can always install the
„missing“ modules in the TeXLive tree, if they really want them!
regards
Keith.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Keith Schultz wrote:Hi Alex,
The simple answer to your question would be to use this page:
http://www.ctan.org/upload/
No, in case of ConTeXt that's not correct. The idea would be to handleeverything automatically once the modules are uploaded tomodules.contextgarden.net. Some discrepancies are intentional, someare "bugs" (read as: nobody noticed that a module was missing and/orbothered requesting it).I was offline for a while and will explain this later in detail. Ijust wanted to make sure that nobody starts uploading cmscbf and aliketo CTAN.BUT, the MISSING modules or packages are so-called third party!
It should be the responsibility of the AUTHORS, to upload the to CTAN!
No, that's not the case with ConTeXt modules. They are synced automatically.Also, e.g cmscbf and cmttbf are no longer needed in mkiv! They are for use
with
mkii!
Furthermore, you should concertrate on using ONLY MKIV! Especially,
since your audience seem to be introductory. MKII is frozen and IMHO
outdated!
It's not so much outdated, but it's certainly frozen and certainly notworth spending too much effort in it. (With an exception of occasionalsupport for XeTeX which is still an up-to-date engine.)I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release,
if you actually need the missing third party modules.
No, wait, let's try to clear things up first.If modules should be on CTAN and aren't, I'll add them to CTAN. Ifmodules are on CTAN, but not in TeX Live, we should figure out whythey are excluded from TeX Live and either make sure that they areeither added to TeX Live (if there are no problems with licencing,packaging etc.) or removed from CTAN (in case they are not reallyuseful). We could keep some modules on CTAN if they are useful, butdon't qualify for TL inclusion for some obscure reason."Don't use TeX Live" could be the proper advice for someone who wantsto use the latest version of ConTeXt, but one shouldn't confuse theuser just because a module is missing in TL by accident.Mojca
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