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Andrew Dunning

6 Oct 2018 6 Oct '18

5:24 p.m.

Dear list, Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see https://brew.sh)? Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version. In looking into it myself, I immediately came across the problem of not being exactly sure where to find a versioned download link. See their guidelines at https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae. All best, Andrew Dunning

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Hans Hagen

6 Oct 6 Oct

5:32 p.m.

On 10/7/2018 1:24 AM, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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Dear list,

Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see https://brew.sh)? Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version.

How do you now update? It's just one recall to first-setup.sh

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In looking into it myself, I immediately came across the problem of not being exactly sure where to find a versioned download link. See their guidelines at https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae.

All best,

Andrew Dunning

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Andrew Dunning

5:39 p.m.

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On 7 Oct 2018, at 01:32, Hans Hagen wrote:

How do you now update? It's just one recall to first-setup.sh

Thanks for the response: to be more precise, my suggestion is more about building discoverability and trust for ConTeXt. Homebrew provides an extremely simple way of installing and uninstalling things along with any dependencies. I think it might be possible to get the script version into Homebrew Cask as it stands, but it would be nicer if it could get directly into Homebrew if that is possible. All best, Andrew

Jan U. Hasecke

7 Oct 7 Oct

3:32 a.m.

On 07.10.18 01:39, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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I think it might be possible to get the script version into Homebrew Cask as it stands, but it would be nicer if it could get directly into Homebrew if that is possible.

This project https://pi-hole.net/ has the install command line right on the front page. I think we could have something like this on the frontpage of the wiki for quick installation. A script that does all this: mkdir ~/context cd ~/context wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh sh ./first-setup.sh --modules=all So people could install the latest beta with something like this: curl http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh | bash juh

Hans Hagen

4:47 a.m.

On 10/7/2018 11:32 AM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:

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On 07.10.18 01:39, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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I think it might be possible to get the script version into Homebrew Cask as it stands, but it would be nicer if it could get directly into Homebrew if that is possible.

This project https://pi-hole.net/

has the install command line right on the front page.

I think we could have something like this on the frontpage of the wiki for quick installation.

A script that does all this:

mkdir ~/context cd ~/context wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh sh ./first-setup.sh --modules=all

So people could install the latest beta with something like this:

curl http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh | bash but after that updating is just calling first-setup again, no need to reinstall

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Hans Åberg

2:56 a.m.

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On 7 Oct 2018, at 01:32, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/7/2018 1:24 AM, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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Dear list, Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see https://brew.sh)? Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version.

How do you now update? It's just one recall to first-setup.sh

It would be better to put the development version in TeXLive as a separate package—on MacOS, it comes with the TeX Live Utility which gives update notifications frequently, once a week, but one can run it more frequently by hand. Just give it a different name than from the ordinary distribution, say context-<version>. When I used the beta, it was difficult to switch with other TeX software. So this might be better.

Hans Hagen

4:45 a.m.

On 10/7/2018 10:56 AM, Hans Åberg wrote:

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On 7 Oct 2018, at 01:32, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/7/2018 1:24 AM, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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Dear list, Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see https://brew.sh)? Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version.

How do you now update? It's just one recall to first-setup.sh

It would be better to put the development version in TeXLive as a separate package—on MacOS, it comes with the TeX Live Utility which gives update notifications frequently, once a week, but one can run it more frequently by hand. Just give it a different name than from the ordinary distribution, say context-<version>.

When I used the beta, it was difficult to switch with other TeX software. So this might be better.

hm, you can install context alongside texlive and just change the path as everything else is picked up from that (also a lightweight context distribution is normally faster than context in texlive) (till now we only update context in telive once per year and i don't know if mojca pushes the latest context in there for the updating; till now often it went in sync with a luatex update) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Hans Åberg

7:06 a.m.

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On 7 Oct 2018, at 12:45, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/7/2018 10:56 AM, Hans Åberg wrote:

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On 7 Oct 2018, at 01:32, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/7/2018 1:24 AM, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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Dear list, Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see https://brew.sh)? Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version.

How do you now update? It's just one recall to first-setup.sh It would be better to put the development version in TeXLive as a separate package—on MacOS, it comes with the TeX Live Utility which gives update notifications frequently, once a week, but one can run it more frequently by hand. Just give it a different name than from the ordinary distribution, say context-<version>. When I used the beta, it was difficult to switch with other TeX software. So this might be better. hm, you can install context alongside texlive and just change the path as everything else is picked up from that (also a lightweight context distribution is normally faster than context in texlive)

I don't recall the problem, maybe using LuaTeX in another context that ConTeXt, so having to keep track of that switch.

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(till now we only update context in telive once per year and i don't know if mojca pushes the latest context in there for the updating; till now often it went in sync with a luatex update)

I get weekly update update notices from the TeX Live Utility, so it seems working fine at that end.

Mojca Miklavec

11:08 a.m.

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 01:24, Andrew Dunning wrote:

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Dear list,

Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see https://brew.sh)?

I'm not aware of any such effort so far, but we gladly help you if you are willing to invest effort into creating one yourself.

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Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the latest version.

Obtaining the latest version is already relatively easy, but I fully understand your point :)

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In looking into it myself, I immediately came across the problem of not being exactly sure where to find a versioned download link. See their guidelines at https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae.

Maybe https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror comes closest to what you are looking for, but note that ConTeXt provides several releases per day (or maybe a release every few days at most) which is more resembling individual commits in other projects than one release per every few months as would be common with other projects. The only thing that comes somewhat closer to a release is a version that gets released with TeX Live once per year, but that's not in line with your desire to easily get the latest version. We had the latest version of ConTeXt in TLContrib repository for a while which could probably be reinstated if desired, but that means using MacTeX (even if from HB). If you want to provide a package for HB, you either need to use "HEAD" or create a cron job that will update the package definition several times per day :) :) :) But note that installing ConTeXt alone is not sufficient. You also need LuaTeX, a bunch of fonts and other files (I'm not sure which ones; with the old ConTeXt MKII it was a lot more dependencies than with the new ConTeXt MKIV). The easiest way would be to install TeX Live as a dependency, but from what I saw I suspect that HB only packages MacTeX as a binary installation. You could install ConTeXt on top of that in a way that doesn't conflict. Alternatively you need to spend (quite some) effort figuring out what exactly is needed. I'll probably create another git repository with a standalone installation, but it's not yet ready and you should not count on it. I suspect that you'll find a slightly hard time getting this package into core HomeBrew and that you'll need to provide your own repository, but I might be wrong. I decided against providing a package for MacPorts precisely because it's not really practical to update a package definition every few days. Mojca

Hans Åberg

9 Oct 9 Oct

7:26 a.m.

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On 7 Oct 2018, at 19:08, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

The only thing that comes somewhat closer to a release is a version that gets released with TeX Live once per year, but that's not in line with your desire to easily get the latest version.

The Tex Live archive is updated continuously: On MacOS, the TeX Live Utility gives weekly update notifications, though one can update more frequently by hand.

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But note that installing ConTeXt alone is not sufficient. You also need LuaTeX, a bunch of fonts and other files (I'm not sure which ones; with the old ConTeXt MKII it was a lot more dependencies than with the new ConTeXt MKIV).

This is a problem with the development version, which looks up luatex via the PATH, I think, which causes a conflict if one needs the luatex in the Tex Live distribution.

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The easiest way would be to install TeX Live as a dependency,

A way might be to give the development version a different name, say context-<version>, making sure it just looks up its own resources, and put it in the TeX Live archive, updated regularly. Then those that runs the TeX Live Utility will have access to it.

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