Re: new ConTeXt versions

["Eckhart Guthöhrlein" <eckhart.guthoehrlein@uni-bielefeld.de>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:00:03PM +0200, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
> I just used Taco's new script (which I find wonderful, thanks so 
> much!), and this made me realize a problem: the latest version of 
> ConTeXt should have updated texexec to version 4.4 -- and it did, sort 
> of. When I checked, it still said "texexec : TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / 
> PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004." I then realized that the new versions of the 
> scripts sit in texmf/scripts/context, while the old versions (that are 
> still being called by the binary texexec) reside in 
> texmf/context/perltk. For the time being, I just copied them over (one 
> could also put softlinks in there, I suppose), but I wonder if this 
> behavior can be modified -- I coulnd't find anything in texexec.rme. My 
> system is tetex on Mac OS X. Anyone else have the same problems?

Here is what I do to be sure that always my own (up-to-date) context is
being used instead of any (almost certainly older) one from a tex
distribution, on all machines I have to use.
- I have context in my private texmf tree in $HOME. By default, this
	should be the first texmf being searched.
- I have links to texmf/scripts/context/xxx.pl etc in $HOME/bin (without
	suffix pl). $HOME/bin comes first in the search path for executables.

To be sure to notice changes like the new location of the scripts, I
usually remove an existing context before installing a newer one.

Regards,
Eckhart