Re: upto current

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 3/20/2013 10:27 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 3/20/2013 7:05 AM, Otared Kavian wrote:
>>
>>> So my pledge is this: make any stable version of ConTeXt in TeXLive so
>>> that it works and typesets a tex-file « out of the box », without needing to
>>> issue any command other than:
>>>          context myfile.tex
>>> This is the case with LaTeX inside TeXLive, and so I cannot see any strong
>>> reason for ConTeXt not having the same behavior.
>>
>> if it doesn't work that way something is wrong ... mtxrun (to which context
>> is an alias) is selfcontained and will generate its own file database and
>> then context will generat eits own format (even after an update) so ...
>
> Yes, this seems a bit weird. ConTeXt in TeX Live 2012 might have had
> bugs, but it should have at least worked out of the box.
>
> It is possible that your copy actually became problematic *after*
> issuing those few commands. In particular, running "texexec --make en"
> would create a new format at a different location than the system
> would put it. As a consequence all further updates become shadowed by
> the old manually created format and you would need to run "texexec
> --make en" manually for every update, else MKII becomes broken (not
> that there were many updates, but this could serve as an example).

this is indeed an issue ... recently I spend a few hours tracking down 
an issue just to find out that for whatever reason a file had ended up 
in a local path .. hard to track down .. one should also keep in mind 
that tds is set up in a way that more or less assumes that there are no 
files in the tree with the same name (at least not in the same category) 
because at some point the order of dir entries start to matter

Hans

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