From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40063 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:54:12 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00804110654k26bc1a66l8a4dc096754445d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <7871fcf50804102052m59a40efbrdace9d3bc255b03@mail.gmail.com> <47FF1669.1060305@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207922174 15685 80.91.229.12 (11 Apr 2008 13:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:56:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 11 15:56:46 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JkJjq-0004Ju-Rb for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:56:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53351FCAF; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:55:42 +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 00221-01-4; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:54:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 427C51FBD0; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:54:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD07C1FBD0 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:54:57 +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 00235-01-4 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:54:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.188]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E261FC03 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:54:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y8so246956tia.14 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:54:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.201.13 with SMTP id y13mr3239594ybf.31.1207922052606; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.122.20 with HTTP; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:54:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <47FF1669.1060305@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:40063 Archived-At: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Joel C. Salomon wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> luatex + context mkiv is indeed independent [of Ruby] > >> > >> - index sorting takes place in mkiv > >> - job control is done with mtxrun/mtx-context > > > > Now that I've been told the idea is at least possible, I've been > > thinking about how to generate a micro-minimal mkiv distribution: no > > fonts except the LM set, no engines except luaTeX, no kpathsea, & > > preferably no external dependencies (perl, ruby, &c.). > > > > So how to best go about this? I'm downloading the current minimals > > (or should I use the .zips at > > ?); what can I cut out? > > use the minimals from the garden .. the zips will go away (apart from > the cont-* zips) > > one option is to write a dedicated fetch script, load the minimals for > luatex use only (is an option) and then look at the files you need > > i wonder if it's worth the trouble because all you get extra on top of > lm is tex gyre open type There are many other OpenType fonts that get fetched by default as well. And maybe the whole bin/common can be left out in that case (maybe windows still needs some libraries). So there is still some space that could be saved. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________