Re: Now is the time for all... (Was: A simple project.)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Maurice Diamantini wrote:

> So that it will always be possible for a LaTeX user to download
> a full independant ConTeXt distribution, just source one of the
> provided setup.sh or setup.csh files, and run either the standard
> texlive old distribution, or its new dowloaded ConTeXt distribution
> without conflict.
> 
> The objective is to had a line such
> source /xxx/context/setup.sh
> in my bashrc without worying if I (or other xTeX user) have to do
> either LaTeX or ConTeXt writing.

Actually there has been something like that for a long time -)

- when a new tex live comes out, i remove my old texmf tree and copy the texlive 
one to my disk (ok, for the next one i need to copy both texmf and texmf-dist to 
texmf on my disk)
- this will then include a version of context
- alongside i keep texmf-local and a few more (which has the beta context and such)

if you do

rsync -v www.pragma-pod.com::

you will get all the trees that you can download

because i seperate things in trees, there is no danger in clashes with existing 
stuff; also, the setup scripts set all variables in a defensive way, so that 
there will be no clash with other distributions (that way i can also keep 
several project trees with older context versions available); the reason for 
using architectre paths is that it permits me to have out of sync binaries which 
means different pool files and formats)

Hans



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