Re: [NTG-context] Minimals without rsync - again?
Does http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-2.htm help?
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I used to update to the latest beta using download-2, but it doesn't contain new binaries and dll's etc.
There is also http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/
Maybe it doesn't contain the latest ConTeXt, but at least it should work (I can update it at any time, but I have a feeling that it now contains the latest "stable" release).
At the above address, there is a .zip file called mswin.zip which appears to contain binaries etc (dated 28-May-2010). Plus another one called mswincontext.zip which presumably contains everything else (dated 17-April-2008). How would I make use of these to install the full distribution? What would be really nice is a .zip file containing EVERYTHING needed to install ConTeXt for the latest stable release AND another .zip (produced, say, once a month) with the changes since the stable release! Or failing that, just a big .zip file with everything in it once a month or so. I can dream!
An alternative is to use ssh port forwarding, but I'm not sure how this can be done (there have already been some discussions about that, so it must be somewhere in archives).
Mojca I've tried to understand all the ssh stuff in the mail archive and elsewhere but it makes my head spin!
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:42, Richard Stephens
At the above address, there is a .zip file called mswin.zip which appears to contain binaries etc (dated 28-May-2010). Plus another one called mswincontext.zip which presumably contains everything else (dated 17-April-2008). How would I make use of these to install the full distribution?
mswincontext is not what it's supposed to be. One should install justtex.zip and mswin.zip ... but something must be wrong since I see now that justtex contains some windows binaries (which it shouldn't).
What would be really nice is a .zip file containing EVERYTHING needed to install ConTeXt for the latest stable release AND another .zip (produced, say, once a month) with the changes since the stable release! Or failing that, just a big .zip file with everything in it once a month or so. I can dream!
I'll try to think about something. But not too soon. (I could update the whole distribution at any moment though.) Mojca
On 28-7-2010 3:42, Richard Stephens wrote:
What would be really nice is a .zip file containing EVERYTHING needed to install ConTeXt for the latest stable release AND another .zip (produced, say, once a month) with the changes since the stable release! Or failing that, just a big .zip file with everything in it once a month or so. I can dream!
I've uploaded: www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshots-common.7z www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshots-mswin.7z www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshots-linux.7z www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshots-linux-64.7z www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshots-ox-intel.7z making zips with changes is a no-go for several reasons - it costs me too much time to do that while most users can use rsync and the garden - uploading from here should happen in reasonable time (a few minutes at most) so, i can upload occasionally those zips (and probably need to be reminded every now and then) and it will be the latest then (it being current of beta) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
As I am working in China at the moment, rsync only works sporadically (super slow, possibly not at all for a couple of days, then at high speed for a day or two), kind of soft blocked. Having clobbered my installation of minimals (and other things) because of it, Not a solution, but a crutch: zip up the whole minimals folder before running rsync. For me that's just under 130MB. Date the file, keep a few... Maybe the now suggested solution will work for me sometime in the future. Currently I am on holiday outside of China. rsync works like a charm in Indonesia. Martin
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Hans Hagen
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Martin Althoff
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Mojca Miklavec
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Richard Stephens