Re: some patches

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Maurice Diamantini wrote:
> Le 15 mai 06 � 09:23, Hans Hagen a �crit :
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slooooow Q3) mac and i
>> think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems.  
>> I now
>> also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries
>> merged in (new undocumented feature) so that there is no longer a need
>> to set the ruby lib path and/or move base files.
>>
>> The new version is uploaded. A next step is to get the stubs done  
>> in the
>> right way (just texmfstart scriptname args)
>>     
>
> Not quite related to this subject, but as you are going to make the  
> ConTeXt
> installation more and more robust. It would be nice if the ConTeXt  
> independant
> distrib could be use **without positionning any TEXMF like variables**.
> This would allow to use updated ConTeXt distrib without breaking a  
> standard
> (more or less old) other LaTeX existing distibution.
>   
hm, in principle you can put the minimal over an existing big one and cross your fingers for it to work. 

the problem with the texmf vars's is that some of them are hard coded (sigh) and the reason why i provide the 'setuptex' things is that when i install tex on some system, i want to be sure that there are no interferences (in the past tex was often installed on linxu systems by default and the only robust way to get rid of an exiting setup was to overload all relevant texmf related vars; 

btw, a inimal installation will not break anything exiting, since you can put it somewhere else; you can even get away from the setuptex scripts by running 

texmfstart --tree=/say/its/located/here texexec ... 

which is handy in web based environments; in that case, texmfstart will read the setuptex.tmf file 

Hans 

Hans 

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