ConTeXt modules on CTAN (authors, please check)
Hello, The ConTeXt modules are now mirrored on CTAN, but they might be lacking better descriptions in the catalogue. Authors of modules - please check.
i've catalogued all but one of the new entries. my catalogue to-do file says:
macros/context/contrib/context-account done (no licence) macros/context/contrib/context-inifile [m"unster, gpl] macros/context/contrib/context-letter done (no licence) macros/context/contrib/context-sgf done (no licence) macros/context/contrib/context-tas-presentation done macros/context/contrib/context-vim done
as you see, i can't find licence details for -account, -letter and -sgf.
(I think they are all public domain, but the request to check is still valid.) Mojca
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
The ConTeXt modules are now mirrored on CTAN, but they might be lacking better descriptions in the catalogue. Authors of modules - please check.
They are still not included in the current texlive beta.
They are under http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/ but not imported into TeX Live yet. Karl asked us to rename tex/context/third/vim into tex/context/third/context-vim (or some similar approach), so that folder names would match package name. Renaming the package into vim is out of question since there is already "vim" package in TL (this is what Karl says, but even if there are no collisions - it's nice if it's clear that something is a ConTeXt package). TeX Live has some automated scripts that check the whole TeX Live tree and match package name with contents. If all packages obey that rule, then one doesn't need to care about list of files that belong to a certain package. But I don't like that solution just for the sake of TeX Live. All other distributions can live without that double naming happily. It would be much better if some ConTeXt-specific package management would be implemented (scripts should be told that they need to deal with ConTeXt package, not LaTeX package, and search fof files accordingly) - ConTeXt packages have enough strict rules of where files may reside. Or whatever. Another solution would be to write rules about which files to fetch for each package. But then Karl doesn't like that solution since he doesn't like having to create new rules every time a new package appears. I'm willing to write those if that would solve the problem. Mojca
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
The ConTeXt modules are now mirrored on CTAN, but they might be lacking better descriptions in the catalogue. Authors of modules - please check. They are still not included in the current texlive beta.
They are under http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/ but not imported into TeX Live yet.
Karl asked us to rename tex/context/third/vim into tex/context/third/context-vim (or some similar approach), so that folder names would match package name. Renaming the package into vim is out of question since there is already "vim" package in TL (this is what Karl says, but even if there are no collisions - it's nice if it's clear that something is a ConTeXt package).
hm, kind of weird to have context in the path and then in the name
TeX Live has some automated scripts that check the whole TeX Live tree and match package name with contents. If all packages obey that rule, then one doesn't need to care about list of files that belong to a certain package.
thats the same for any macro package so maybe the packages should have names like <macropackage>-<name> where the instaleer strips the macro package prefix and uses that for installing
But I don't like that solution just for the sake of TeX Live. All other distributions can live without that double naming happily. It would be much better if some ConTeXt-specific package management would be implemented (scripts should be told that they need to deal with ConTeXt package, not LaTeX package, and search fof files accordingly) - ConTeXt packages have enough strict rules of where files may reside. Or whatever.
we can add that feature to mtx-update (or i can write something dedicated)
Another solution would be to write rules about which files to fetch for each package. But then Karl doesn't like that solution since he doesn't like having to create new rules every time a new package appears. I'm willing to write those if that would solve the problem.
easiest would be just to pack all third party stuff in one big zip (after all it's not that huge) and just unzip it in the tree Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
The ConTeXt modules are now mirrored on CTAN, but they might be lacking better descriptions in the catalogue. Authors of modules - please check.
They are still not included in the current texlive beta.
maybe taco can check in cont-ext.zip ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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