From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27398 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 2c considerations about win installer Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:20:30 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00604220920x137e2386t9861d42451cbcf35@mail.gmail.com> References: <60f8c1827dc0a7c7006ddc52611e9944@di.unito.it> <44488D3A.8010404@virgilio.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145754987 1759 80.91.229.2 (23 Apr 2006 01:16:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Apr 23 03:16:24 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 1FXTD5-0001W3-UA for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:16:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195D71279F; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:16:23 +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 19212-03; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B5512780; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:16:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1B412780 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:16:15 +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 19211-03 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:16:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.190]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D64812778 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:16:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x37so585428nfc for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.254.13 with SMTP id b13mr66706nfi; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.223.20 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <44488D3A.8010404@virgilio.it> Content-Disposition: inline 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:27398 Archived-At: On 4/21/06, Jilani Khaldi wrote: > > >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? > > No, nothing; and it is very easy to do it, above all when it could be > done with Ruby using the "gem" installation. Have you already done that? If it's easy to do it, I think that there would be many users would be really thankful if someone would have written an one-click-installer. MikTeX developer doesn't listen too much to requests from ConTeXt users (although he does a marvellous job with MikTeX otherwise and has enough of other things to do). But if I don't count the troubles connected with not-so-good-support for ConTeXt in MikTeX, it stil remains one of the easiest ways to install and update it. It's staightforward to install standolne-ConTeXt, but not for beginners and those having almost no knowledge about computers. An installation .exe would be warmly welcome. Mojca > You can install and update > ConTeXt with a single comand controlling indipendies and everything else > needed. It is also very easy using "InnoSetup" > (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php). > Cheers, > jk