From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42473 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt modules on CTAN (authors, please check) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:50:32 +0200 Message-ID: <487D0D98.8020207@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00807141321r7e2f1cadg37eca09830008753@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00807150831t4f36e8fay1f3271fb18df7944@mail.gmail.com> 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: ger.gmane.org 1216155133 30616 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 20:52:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Berry To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 15 22:53:00 2008 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 1KIrW2-0006Ip-DK for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:52:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17BA1FBCC; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:51:59 +0200 (CEST) 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 01113-01; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:51:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF6B1FC98; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:51:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68D01FC98 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:51:10 +0200 (CEST) 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 32523-05-6 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:50:36 +0200 (CEST) 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 68D271FBCC for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:50:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.11]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 2600-1840426 for multiple; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:50:32 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00807150831t4f36e8fay1f3271fb18df7944@mail.gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.11 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:42473 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> The ConTeXt modules are now mirrored on CTAN, but they might be >>> lacking better descriptions in the catalogue. Authors of modules - >>> please check. >> They are still not included in the current texlive beta. > > They are under > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/ > but not imported into TeX Live yet. > > Karl asked us to rename tex/context/third/vim into > tex/context/third/context-vim (or some similar approach), so that > folder names would match package name. Renaming the package into vim > is out of question since there is already "vim" package in TL (this is > what Karl says, but even if there are no collisions - it's nice if > it's clear that something is a ConTeXt package). hm, kind of weird to have context in the path and then in the name > TeX Live has some automated scripts that check the whole TeX Live tree > and match package name with contents. If all packages obey that rule, > then one doesn't need to care about list of files that belong to a > certain package. thats the same for any macro package so maybe the packages should have names like - where the instaleer strips the macro package prefix and uses that for installing > But I don't like that solution just for the sake of TeX Live. All > other distributions can live without that double naming happily. It > would be much better if some ConTeXt-specific package management would > be implemented (scripts should be told that they need to deal with > ConTeXt package, not LaTeX package, and search fof files accordingly) > - ConTeXt packages have enough strict rules of where files may reside. > Or whatever. we can add that feature to mtx-update (or i can write something dedicated) > Another solution would be to write rules about which files to fetch > for each package. But then Karl doesn't like that solution since he > doesn't like having to create new rules every time a new package > appears. I'm willing to write those if that would solve the problem. easiest would be just to pack all third party stuff in one big zip (after all it's not that huge) and just unzip it in the tree 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________