Re: context minimals

From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Patrick Gundlach <patrick@gundla.ch>,
	Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz <scholz.m82@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: context minimals
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:08:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6faad9f01002041208i1dfab607hcc41d9fd56dae1ec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hkf5s3$sve$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 20:06, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:04:48 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 1-2-2010 21:47, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote:
>>
>>> thanks for your info, so I have the opinion that the git is much faster
>>> and if contextgarden has one, is it possible to add a git for the
>>> minimals there or who does one have to ask for it.
>>
>> mojca as she's in charge of the minimals
>
> Hi Hans, Hi Mojca, hi list,
>
> finished today an ebuild for funtoo, should also work under gentoo if
> interested for an add to the contextgarden wiki let me know.
>
> And Mojca, would be nice to get direct contact to you for some infos
> concerning the build process of context-minimals. Just reply to my mail-
> address from which I post.

I'm sorry. I'm here and I'm reading, it's just that I didn't yet
figure out what to reply to you about git. About the speed of git:
it's indeed very fast, but you need to bear in mind that you would
need to download the whole archive of every single luatex binary
version (OK, compressed, but still).

If we start shipping the minimals as git repository (but then we would
ship it as a whole) it would be best to just put a cron job on
contextgarden.net that would update on regular bases. Volunteer?

Mojca

PS: rsync also updates "only changed files" which was still better
than updating the whole zip, though it does update the whole files,
not just the differences between files. It also has an advantage that
one would then easily switch back in time locally if something goes
wrong.
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