Re: minimals & TeX Live 2008

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

Mojca Miklavec schrieb:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
>> Ulrich Dirr schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Friday, July 18, 2008 10:38 AM Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>> this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so
>>>> i expect a new bin any time now
>>> I've just installed ConTexT minimals on a new pc with vista 64 and got
>>> the 'cache file not writable' messages.
>>>
>>> Will Mojca give us a hint when we can reload/reinstall minimals from
>>> contextgarden? Or will it be enough to run the 'first-setup' batch file
>>> again?
>>>
>> the minimals use the latest non beta release of context from 21.05.2008.
> 
> The minimals use whatever version you ask them to fetch for you. In
> first-setup.sh I have
>    --context=beta
> and I sometimes add
>    --context=experimental
> 
> The problem is that I have put beta versions of those files into
> context bin, and if one uses some other version, it fails to work.
>
i see

>> i think all you need is to copy the files luatools.lua and mtxrun.lua
>> from that version (in the texmf-context/scripts/context/lua directory)
>> to the texmf-mswin/bin directory. just overwrite the newer version and
>> all should work.
> 
>> @Mojca: maybe it's a good idea to remove both files from 'mswin.zip'.
>> or make sure somehow that they are in sync with the versions in
>> 'justtex.zip'. just my 2eurocents.
> 
> Oh, right, the "pragma" dir, sorry. After Hans comes from Cork, I'll
> ask him to fix a few things, and those two files will then be fetched
> separately. I also have problems with those two files.
> 
> But my question - should "pragma"-like zips contain context beta or current?
>
current (no doubt about that)

> Apart from that - is luatex (& cache paths) working now?
>
i tested the latest luatex ('updated on 2007-07-17') some hours ago and 
it still has this problem.

> Mojca
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