Re: [NTG-context] backward compatibility [URGENT]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:31:58 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

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Is there an easy way to do this, like using sudo ctxtools -- updatecontext and use the respective files from the museum? Where is the museum exactly? I usually keep old cont-tmf's for up to half a year before deleting them but if there is a depository... See

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Revisions

Hans,

How hard is to implement a --downgrade switch (or --upgrade=version) in ctxtools? It would be as simple as:

1. Go to http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=14, parse for the particular date and download the appropriate files, or 2. Try all files tmf, exa, win|ppc|?? one by one, and download the ones that are available,

and then unzip the files and remake the formats. This would make going back to an old version really easy. I don't know if packet managers for linux like apt-get can downgrade to an earlier version. In any case, this will be a very useful feature.

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