From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27334 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: andrea valle Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: 2c considerations about win installer Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:33:04 +0200 Message-ID: <60f8c1827dc0a7c7006ddc52611e9944@di.unito.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145576926 659 80.91.229.2 (20 Apr 2006 23:48:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 21 01:48:41 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FWit0-0002J1-B0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:48:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B416127A3; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:48:34 +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 04297-05; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:48:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7751279D; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:48:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BBC41279D for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:48:24 +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 09715-01-2 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:48:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from pianeta.di.unito.it (pianeta.di.unito.it [130.192.239.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id BD352126F8 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:48:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [83.184.26.147] (d83-184-26-147.cust.tele2.it [83.184.26.147]) by pianeta.di.unito.it (INFO-DIP) with ESMTP id k3KNZqJk028659 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO userCertificateDN= AuthenticatedUser=valle ) for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:36:18 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-dipinfo-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Department of Computer Science technical staff for more information X-AntiVirus: Scanned for viruses by VirusFinder @2001-tecnici@di.unito.it - Email Clean X-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-102.599, required 4.5, autolearn=not spam, AUTHENTICATEDUSER -100.00, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: valle@di.unito.it X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:27334 Archived-At: Dear all, I'm using conTeXt to create automatic documentation about sound = classification. The idea is that starting from an html file collecting = infos about sounds my program can generate some schematic images using = R and POV-Ray and to create a conTeXt file including both images and = textual information. Now, I'd like to share this work with my students. I'm on macosx, = they're typically on win. My program is in python so it's = cross-platform, so no problem. Obviously they can annotate sounds, = generate images and include them manually in a MS word file. But I'd = prefer that they compile the conTeXt file. On two win machines I tried to install conTeXt using the complete = package (shipped with Scite: nice). I had always (different) troubles = (on each machine) with environment variable (e.g. for Perl): actually = I'm not able to run conTeXt. Hacking a bit, eventually asking the list, I think I will solve the = problem. But I don't think that my students can do, as I suspect that = they probably not even know what is PATH. And I cannot help them on = each installation. So, more generally, I was asking myself if it would not be possible = (and better) to have an .exe installer as usual happens in win, = including Perl, maybe Ruby (+ or- 20 Mb doesn't change too much). = Double click, and it set ups all the installation parameters. A = completely autonomous installer would allow many people to try, use = and get fond conTeXt (and maybe to leave Word) without having to = struggle with problems which typically lead people to leave out. It seems to me that a similar installer would be a refinement in the = spirit of the actual mswincontext distro. At the end, it's not that far form Gerben's distro on macosx. It does = everything for me... Or maybe am I missing something? Just my 2 c Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facolt=E0 di Scienze della Formazione Universit=E0 degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle@unito.it