Hello Mojca, Since you don't use Windows, it may be useless, but here is the proper link: http://rapidshare.com/files/51823950/context-installer-1.0.zip Thank you for detailed suggestions! All your proposals I can implement (theoretically). :-)

- installer downloads the necessary zips and unpacks them automatically to the desired location"

How can I tell necessary zips from unnecessary? And do you mean cont-tmf and other zips found on the pragma site? -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

A few suggestions of how I would imagine such an instaler to work: - user downloads the exe file (or zipped exe) and runs it - user chooses the folder where to install the context minimals - installer downloads the necessary zips and unpacks them automatically to the desired location - if the user want to install the minimals permanently (globally), add the necessary values to register, but remember any values previously set (by TeXLive or by some other distribution) - (you might need to install unzip.exe as well)

- the installer should be able to only fetch and unzip the files, or additionally set the variables in register

Menu entry of "ConTeXt minimals" sould have the following entries: - enable context minimals globally - disable context minimals globally - check for updates/update context (includes remaking formats) - remake formats - I have much more in mind, but that's a topic for some other time

People want to run the minimals in parallel with MikTeX or TeXLive. This means that they would want to "enable the minimal context distribution temporary", so that when they call texexec, the minimal tree will be used, but they would like to "disable it again", so that when they call texexec again, MikTeX will be used again.

Mojca