From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22200 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jjgod Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Upgrading ConTeXt and testing Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:53:36 +0800 Message-ID: <4313CA30.1060302@21cn.com> References: <431B3E5E@webmail.colostate.edu> <4312CEE3.4020306@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125370473 25720 80.91.229.2 (30 Aug 2005 02:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 30 04:54:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9wGL-00030O-UJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:54:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B888512808; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:54:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11616-05; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:54:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7B1127EB; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:54:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B20127EB for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:54:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11555-09 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:54:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 21cn.com (send.forptr.21cn.com [202.105.45.49]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 90B2A127E7 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:53:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [211.66.100.83]([127.0.0.1]) by 21cn.com(AIMC 2.9.5.6 P2) with SMTP id jm4943140624; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:55:59 +0800 Original-Received: from [211.66.100.83]([211.66.100.83]) by 21cn.com(AIMC 2.9.5.4) with SMTP id AISP action; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:55:58 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: zh-cn,zh Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4312CEE3.4020306@elvenkind.com> X-AIMC-AUTH: gzjjgod X-AIMC-MAILFROM: gzjjgod@21cn.com X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22200 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Lately, we get a lot of bug reports for miktex, which is problematic > since none of us use miktex: I believe Hans has a fptex-ish system, > and most other 'core' people are either linux or macintosh based. The problem is, currently MikTeX (2.4) does not have a SDK, the maintainer said a SDK will be released in version 2.5, but the release date is not fixed yet. MikTeX use a different way (compare to tetex) to load web2c config file, so the kpathsea library in MikTeX is just a wrapper of function calls to the MikTeX library. Without a SDK we have to fetch all the source code of MikTeX to compile such a library, which is rather difficult. To name one problem I encounted, the Win32 binaries of afm2pl (from http://tex.aanhet.net/afm2pl/) does not work in MikTeX (because the reason I just described), but it's really hard to compile a binary (with libkpse support) by myself. > > A volunteer for miktex would be brilliant (even better: someone who > knows how to compile miktex executables). - jjgod.