Re: Standalone Installation Question

[hwitloc@gmail.com]

To: ConTeXt package maintainer for TeXlive distribution:

TeXlive as of 2011 or so is compatible under unix type with cygwin.

I do not want to use the Microsoft version.  There is no reason from me to change
code and scripts to work with Microsoft's methods.  Also I will not give up the unix developement environment that cygwin delivers to work with ConteXt.

I'd like to know the the Context package that was submitted to TeXlive.
I presume this was in soure format. How can I get that for the beta/current MKIV
and build it myself?  

Thanks


luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, <hwitloc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Yes I saw the Windows version of Context mentioned and read it,
>     but the documentation is,
>     in this case, wrong or not fully correct. This is because I am now
>     using Context which comes is included in the TexLive distribution,
>     selected with Unix like operating systems. No bat files or other
>     ancillary code or invokations are necessary.
>     
>     Texlive's Context program would probably not run directly on
>     Microsoft Windows O.S.
> hm, my experience is the opposite: texlive context runs on Windows,
> but I don't use it because the standalone also works under Windows.
> (I use the texlive for all the rest, btw).
> 
>     I believe that the documentation can be expanded to cover using a
>     Context on Cygwin directly and not the Microsoft port which
>     requires the usage of strange Microsoft pathnames, with C:\ and \
>     seperators.
>     
>     Using context on cygwin for cygwin may only have been done in
>     TexLive for Unix like systems, but I'd like to use and test on the
>     bleeding edge MKIV. But, that proves that it can be done. I just
>     don't know what was done.
>     
> In this case I think it's better to use the standalone directly on
> Windows.
> 
> -- 
> luigi
> 
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