Re: Context 2005.11.11 Released

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

>Karl Berry said this at Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:16:08 -0600:
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>>   Is this a "Halo" release for TeXLive? 
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>>I don't know what that means, but no, this context release won't be on
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>I should have been more precise. I've heard of "halo" releases being the
>last set of bug fixes for a given software series (such as MacOSX 10.3.9
>or whatever was the final kernel in the Linux 2.2.n series).
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the only problems with the software (kernels) i ran into was that 
previous te xlive binaries no longer run on this years kernels but that 
should not affect context and tex live

>>TL'05.  That's frozen, and Manfred is making the golden masters for
>>final testing and production now.  From what Hans and Taco have told me,
>>the post-TL context releases aren't critical, i.e., TL should be ok.  If
>>that's not the case, I don't want to know :).  (Ok, not really, please
>>inform ASAP if that's so :)
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>Oh. I haven't been following closely, but I did notice that Taco
>referred to the previous (2005.11.09) version as being a bit of a
>"problem child". 
><http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.11>
>I just wanted to flag the issue as soon as possible, in case Hans/Taco
>saw it as critical.
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there has indeed been some fixes (some posted off list) that had to deal 
with latin modern, mptopdf (used outside context) as well as supp-pdf 
and such

Hans