On 2013–02–05 Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> PS: I remember times when it used to be difficult to get
> \externalfigure[cow] working without an extra command. Now it's
> apparently vice versa ;)

Funnily this is already a complete working minimal example:

  \externalfigure [example]

This compiles with context beyond 2011.11.29 23:11 but fails with
2011.05.18 18:04 and earlier.

Marco