From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27389 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mari Voipio Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 2c considerations about win installer Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:33:49 +0300 Message-ID: <444A30BD.4010400@iki.fi> References: <60f8c1827dc0a7c7006ddc52611e9944@di.unito.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145713121 23728 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2006 13:38:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Apr 22 15:38:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1FXIJi-0002qt-Fp for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:38:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2112C1278B; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:38:30 +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 15518-04; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:38:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 101EC1278A; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:33:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E6F1278A for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:33:53 +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 15518-03-2 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:33:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fep30-app.kolumbus.fi (fep30-0.kolumbus.fi [193.229.0.32]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C7CB1276B for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:33:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.34] (really [84.231.68.72]) by fep30-app.kolumbus.fi with ESMTP id <20060422133350.MJUS21268.fep30-app.kolumbus.fi@[192.168.1.34]> for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:33:50 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27389 Archived-At: olivier wrote: > Your students can also install Ruby (single click .exe > : Rubyinstaller from > : http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9417/ruby184-16_rc1.exe) > and Perl (single click .exe : activePerl > :http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/) whithout any pb's of > adding new executables to the path, since it's done while installation. Except that I found out the very hard way, that at least Ruby installs nicely for a power user, but doesn't change the path unless the installation is done when logged in as Administrator - which may be a problem in a multi-user environment. Other than that, I haven't had any problems with newer versions of the MSWinConTeXt distribution (the one that unzips into 'isoimage' folder). I'm currently running the April 10 version from CD at work and once Perl and Ruby got installed into the path, the system has been really easy to use. [I downloaded the mswincontext.zip, unzipped and burned the *contents* of the isoimage folder onto a CD - and that's it, then.) Yes I agree, it is harder to put a working ConTeXt into Windows than into a Mac where it was *very* easy, but with Administrator rights to Windows2000/XP, the abovementioned Perl and Ruby installation packages are no problem and after that things just work. Mari (multi-OS user, but best in Windows)