From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: backward compatibility [URGENT]
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:10:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47590E20.5010103@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0712061453160.5977@nqv-yncgbc>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>>> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:31:58 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum
>>> <context@st.estfiles.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way to do this, like using sudo ctxtools --
>>>> updatecontext and use the respective files from the museum?
>>> Where is the museum exactly? I usually keep old cont-tmf's for up to half
>>> a year before deleting them but if there is a depository...
>> See
>>
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Revisions
>
> Hans,
>
> How hard is to implement a --downgrade switch (or --upgrade=version) in
> ctxtools? It would be as simple as:
>
> 1. Go to http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=14, parse for the
> particular date and download the appropriate files, or
> 2. Try all files tmf, exa, win|ppc|?? one by one, and download the ones
> that are available,
>
> and then unzip the files and remake the formats. This would make going
> back to an old version really easy. I don't know if packet managers for
> linux like apt-get can downgrade to an earlier version. In any case, this
> will be a very useful feature.
eventually the minimal installer should be able to do this
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 17:31 Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-06 17:35 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-06 20:06 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-07 8:50 ` Steffen Wolfrum
[not found] ` <47590D11.4090800@wxs.nl>
[not found] ` <2F0ABBD5-2A3A-42FA-BAA2-BA027265EA7C@st.estfiles.de>
2007-12-07 9:36 ` Hans Hagen
2007-12-07 10:04 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-07 10:25 ` [found it!] backward compatibility Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-07 10:46 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-12-07 11:43 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2007-12-07 12:21 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-12-06 17:53 ` backward compatibility [URGENT] Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-12-06 17:57 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-12-06 19:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-07 9:10 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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