From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4350 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Berend de Boer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beta version with new encoding support uploaded Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:40:18 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3AAE3152.808@pobox.com> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010313150522.00a71cc0@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395028 25083 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:43:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Robert F. Beeger" <5beeger@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4350 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. (-: