Re: week of wiki 1: call for "installation instructions"

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Feb 6, 2008 8:18 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net> wrote:
> Am 2008-02-06 um 15:50 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
> > So, I have a little request: can we devote one week (or 10 days if
> > neded) for improvement of installation instructions? This means:
> > - improve a generic page (Installation) with links,  general notes
> > about dependencies (ruby, perl), general settings
> > (\useMPTEXgraphicstrue, \preloadtypescripts, write18, texexec --make
> > --all, ctxtools --updatecontext, ..), release notes
> > - three (or slightly more) main pages: Windows Installation, Mac
> > Installation, Linux Installation
>
> I just cleaned up the Mac page (it was really messy)

Great, thanks!

Now that I have seen a note about TeXShop, maybe a note about editors
(TextMate) or link to page with editors and viewers (Skim) would be in
place as well (at least a list of them).

> and added a hint
> to the minimal distribution - that page goes under the bad name of
> "Linux_User_Installation". I guess we should rename that.

True, Linux_User_Installation should be more general since it works
with any "unix".
I have alse created a page
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals, but that one needs to
be improved (too much junk on it - wiki pages need to be short and
clear, else nobody reads them).

Hans has not updated his distribution since August (which means that
there are still old binaries ond fonts) and we're working on improving
the new minimals at the moment. The good side of it is that it uses
rsync, and updates semi-automatically (binaries need to be rebuilt
manually, and many parts need to be improved), the bad side of it is
that if garden goes down, there is no backup server yet to fetch the
binaries from (and if the disk stops working, I will need quite some
time to get all the parts together again), and the structure might
still change a bit.

But the basic idea and the structure once the files are downloaded are
similar (we started building the minimals based more-or-less on the
same set of files as there are in Hans's minimals).

Mojca
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