Re: tex live and context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz  
> <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> after some testing taco and i found out that tl has recent map
>>>> files but
>>>> that there's a problem with rsync and time outs on large trees,
>>>> which is
>>>> why my local texlive copy is incomplete; so, it mostly depends on
>>>> what
>>>> snapshot one uses
>>>>         
>>> This is exactly why I stick with mswincontext.zip, to avoid
>>> headaches like
>>> this ;-)
>>>       
>
>   
>> I sympathize, but I think you're a bit unfair here. If I understand
>> Hans's mail right, he was not installing from the image, but rsyncing
>> his trees with TeXLive, and that's where the error was. I've been
>> running the development version for at least three months now (even
>> when it still was called 2006...) and haven't had any troubles,
>> especially wrt to fonts and packages.
>>     
>
> Point taken, although for the record I finally abandoned TeXLive a couple  
> of years ago or so because of headaches with getting ever-newer versions  
> of ConTeXt working right, then there was aleph and...
>   
if you don't need latex or else, the minimals are quite convenient, and 
when you also use scite, the mswintex one is even more convenient

going is step further ... some day you'll only need luatex.exe and 
context.zip

btw, i'll make new minimals one of these days
>   
>> On a linux or OS X box, I would
>> even recommend installing it alongside the minimal and switch between
>> them to test things, but I have no idea if/how this is possible on
>> winblows.
>>     
>
> Well, there's setuptex.bat which allows this and I do have a XemTeX tree  
>  from Fabrice. Maybe I'll update XemTeX and see what happens.
>
>   
i'm not sure if xemtex is up to date

Hans 

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