From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33497 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: tex live and context Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:34:48 +0100 Message-ID: <45DEA728.7030601@wxs.nl> References: <5FBF59B9-3D1A-4AE4-8F3A-EF019602FB59@uni-bonn.de> <4CB783E5-4708-4B1B-9D12-FFD738C53DFC@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172224276 31528 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2007 09:51:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:51:16 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Feb 23 10:51:09 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKX52-0003gY-To for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:51:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF486202C8; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:47:44 +0100 (CET) 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 15631-06; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:47:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC9C82049C; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:33:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B371D2049A for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:33:11 +0100 (CET) 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 13740-09-2 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:33:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C56820480 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:31:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 10228 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:34:46 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:33497 Archived-At: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------