further stubs

further stubs

[Peter Münster]

Hello,

I suggest putting 3 further stubs into .../scripts/context/stubs/unix :

1.) luatools:

#!/bin/sh
texmfstart luatools.lua "$@"


2.) mtxrun:

#!/bin/sh
texmfstart mtxrun.lua "$@"


3.) context (same file as .../scripts/context/lua/context):

#!/bin/sh
mtxrun --script context $@


This has 2 advantages:
- you can put .../scripts/context/stubs/unix in your PATH
- you can type "texexec file" for MKII and "context file" for MKIV

(same for MS-Win of course)

What do you think?

Cheers, Peter

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Re: further stubs

[Hans Hagen]

Peter Münster wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I suggest putting 3 further stubs into .../scripts/context/stubs/unix :
> 
> 1.) luatools:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> texmfstart luatools.lua "$@"
> 
> 
> 2.) mtxrun:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> texmfstart mtxrun.lua "$@"
> 
> 
> 3.) context (same file as .../scripts/context/lua/context):
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> mtxrun --script context $@
> 
> 
> This has 2 advantages:
> - you can put .../scripts/context/stubs/unix in your PATH
> - you can type "texexec file" for MKII and "context file" for MKIV
> 
> (same for MS-Win of course)
> 
> What do you think?

both luatools and mtxrun are meant to be unstubbed

(1) luatools itself knows about the tree and therefore can start pretty 
fast

(2) mtxrun is the replacement for texmfstart so in our case one would 
have a slow stub loading a fast stub loading a program; i didn't test it 
but texmfstart could be a symlink to mtxrun

the context command can be stubbed indeed (i need to add that one, but 
it's still somewhat experimental)

	luatools --selfupdate
	mtxrun --selfupdate

should result in an updated versions

Hans

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Re: further stubs

[Peter Münster]

On Sun, Mar 30 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:

> both luatools and mtxrun are meant to be unstubbed

Allright, I'll make symbolic links in my PATH. It seems to me, that I
should not need the --selfupdate then, right?

> the context command can be stubbed indeed (i need to add that one, but 
> it's still somewhat experimental)

Thanks! I think especially for new ConTeXt users, it will be clearer to
type "context file" than anything else.

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Re: further stubs

[Hans Hagen]

Peter Münster wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> both luatools and mtxrun are meant to be unstubbed
> 
> Allright, I'll make symbolic links in my PATH. It seems to me, that I
> should not need the --selfupdate then, right?

i think so

>> the context command can be stubbed indeed (i need to add that one, but 
>> it's still somewhat experimental)
> 
> Thanks! I think especially for new ConTeXt users, it will be clearer to
> type "context file" than anything else.

in mkiv more things wil be simple, for instance metapost runs are now 
invisible (even multipass mp is done inside now), graphic conversion is 
built in, sorting too, and there is less dependency on external programs

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Re: further stubs

[Peter Münster]

On Sun, Mar 30 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:

> in mkiv more things wil be simple, for instance metapost runs are now 
> invisible (even multipass mp is done inside now), graphic conversion is 
> built in, sorting too, and there is less dependency on external programs

Great! This means perhaps also less temporary files (file.tmp, file.tuX,
file-mpgraph.mp, mpgraph.mp and so on) ?!
Cheers, Peter

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Re: further stubs

[Hans Hagen]

Peter Münster wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> in mkiv more things wil be simple, for instance metapost runs are now 
>> invisible (even multipass mp is done inside now), graphic conversion is 
>> built in, sorting too, and there is less dependency on external programs
> 
> Great! This means perhaps also less temporary files (file.tmp, file.tuX,
> file-mpgraph.mp, mpgraph.mp and so on) ?!
> Cheers, Peter

some are still needed, but the mpgraph files are gond as are buffers 
(already in memory for some time in mkiv)

H

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