On 2011-05-04 <18:02:44>, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> 
> >Looks like context needs a package manager. (Something like
> >Arch’s PKGBUILDs, stored on the garden, could simplify the
> >minimals’ installation procedure a great deal.)
> 
> https://github.com/adityam/context-pkgbuild
> 
> (but this only installs the modules available with --extras=all).

Yes, I know and though I prefer the minimals installer, you
already got my vote.

Would be no problem to write module pkgbuilds for arch. But the
minimals need to be cross platform. (Pkgbuilds use bash syntax --
however, context already brings its own cross-platform
interpreter, namely lua. Maybe the module repositories should
provide installation directives, written as a lua table, that
could then be fed to texlua? The installer would thus 1.
clone/pull the repo to somewhere safe (file integrity check done
implicitly by git/hg); 2. “dofile” the install file and 3. move
the files to their designated paths; possibly 4. build the
documentation. (Module dependencies could make this all a lot
more difficult in the end.))

tl;dr  lua might help.

Philipp



> 
> Aditya

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