Re: beta version with new encoding support uploaded

[Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>]

Robert F. Beeger wrote:

> That sounds interesting and I think I would like to test it.
> Does someone know how to install two versions of ConTeXt on one 
> TeX-system so that I could say
> texexec --pdf example
> for a run in the stable version and
> texexecb --pdf example
> for a run in the beta version.
> 
> Is there a way to achieve this or must I have two TeX-systems each 
> running one of the ConTeXt versions.
> Does someone have Perl-scripts or anything in the way to install a beta 
> version that it can coexist with the stable version.
> 

This can be done with some texmf trickery, you loose texexec --make 
however. Make entries for cstable and cnew for example in texmf.cnf. Make 
sure each have different search paths. Create new texexecutables (ln -s 
pdfetex cnew).

Unzipping stuff in different directories is less easy, hard work.

 > Or how do you ConTeXt-gurus do it? Are you ever using the newest beta
 > version?

So what I do is I keep track of older copies. If a newer copy doesn't 
work, I'm going back, just unzip an older version, texexec --make, and ready.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-: