Re: ConTeXt minimals installation problem

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

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 23:53, Maurí­cio wrote:
>> It's counter-intuitive, but I'm afraid that "stable" might be a bi
>> broken at the moment.
>
> I didn't find discussion on that on the list, so I think it
> is not bad to ask: has context considered these "new fashion"
> version control systems?
>
> I've been using these for a few months (darcs and, recently,
> mercurial), and I can tell it's really worth, although I
> don't know if developers do have time to try or plan such kind
> of switch.

The very first plan was to make everything based on svn. The problem
is that svn is still very very limited. I was experimenting with
darcs, but didn't have enough knowledge about it, and darcs consumes
twice the space needed if I remember correctly, so that was somehow
ruled out before I even started thinking ...

I wanted to have one special kind of functionality, namely, being able
to choose which modules to install, which engines to install, which
fonts to install etc. SVN doesn't offer that. Darcs does with some
clever trickery, but see above.

We did consider ... but didn't have the right idea about the exact
inplementation. Also, I didn't expect so serious problems with version
mismatches. ConTeXt will soon be available with all beta versions as a
git repository, but we would have to put everything else into some
repository as well.

Mojca
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