From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt on MikTeX broken
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:29:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22af238a0805060729qd09b71et8ad47d75537d3144@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00805030300t25487699h3d3617a2cde73edf@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> some time ago some MikTeX users have complained that ConTeXt doesn't
> work on MikTeX. It seems to be a problem with MikTeX itself since this
> workaround seems to solve the problem, at least temporary:
> ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX
> 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" texexec
I'm not so quick to blame MiKTeX -- I suspect texmfstart.rb would need
to provide some path searching tailored to MiKTeX. It seems to rely
on $0 with a tetex/texlive directory structure where SELFAUTOPARENT
can be used. The only criticism of MiKTeX is that it is silly to distribute
a broken package, but then it is up to ConTeXt users to report breakage
and, ideally, supply fixes.
> (But apparently there are not many MikTeX users on the list anyway.
> Else more would have complained.)
Don't complain, just switch to a platform/distro where ConTeXt works
and use mpm (since few others provide updates with the speed and
convenience of MiKTeX).
I think MiKTeX should remain focusing on the packages and binaries,
and rely on upstream to fix broken packages.
--
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-03 10:00 Mojca Miklavec
2008-05-06 14:29 ` George N. White III [this message]
2008-05-06 14:57 ` Mojca Miklavec
2008-05-06 16:39 ` George N. White III
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