From: Hans van der Meer <H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: error updating beta WAS: beta
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 20:27:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <916798F4-866C-4430-9DD6-5F19FD0B6387@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762t2cl0f.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh>
On 2 feb 2011, at 20:08, Peter Münster wrote:
> Vnpenguin <vnpenguin@vnoss.org> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 13:41, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>> no, i'm still trying to get mkii and mkiv working at the same time with a
>>>> fundamental different setup strategy .. getting there
>>>
>>> Or perhaps 2 completely different distributions?
>>> mkii: frozen, only some fixes from time to time
>>> mkiv: no more mkii files, no more pdftex, just pure mkiv
>>
>> Yes, I like this idea. I don't care about mkii, nor pdftex.
>
> In the first place, this idea was meant to make Hans' life easier.
> (not the user's life... ;-)
>
I strongly support the idea of freezing mkii, apart from repairing obvious bugs in the existing codebase. It will free precious resources and save valuable time. Moreover imho concentrating on mkiv not hampered by compatability issues because of mkii, can only add to its stability.
(It is just like evolution or maybe call it progress. Imagine both our primate ancestors and the dinosaurs being maintained at the same time? Where would we be? ;-)
Hans van der Meer
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 16:49 beta Hans Hagen
2011-01-31 17:33 ` beta Otared Kavian
2011-01-31 17:45 ` beta Thomas Schmitz
2011-01-31 17:56 ` beta Otared Kavian
2011-01-31 18:11 ` beta Hans van der Meer
2011-01-31 19:01 ` beta Peter Münster
2011-01-31 21:28 ` beta Hans Hagen
2011-02-01 5:53 ` beta Vnpenguin
2011-02-01 8:43 ` beta Hans Hagen
2011-02-01 8:45 ` beta luigi scarso
2011-02-01 10:40 ` beta Alan BRASLAU
2011-01-31 19:04 ` beta Hans Hagen
2011-02-01 12:42 ` beta Jörg Hagmann
2011-02-01 12:47 ` beta luigi scarso
2011-02-01 13:22 ` beta Jörg Hagmann
2011-02-01 13:26 ` beta luigi scarso
2011-02-01 13:36 ` beta Jörg Hagmann
2011-02-01 13:42 ` beta luigi scarso
2011-02-01 13:46 ` beta Jörg Hagmann
2011-02-01 13:54 ` beta luigi scarso
2011-02-01 14:38 ` beta Jörg Hagmann
2011-02-01 14:46 ` beta luigi scarso
2011-02-01 15:00 ` beta Jörg Hagmann
2011-02-01 15:13 ` beta Vedran Miletić
2011-02-01 15:35 ` beta Alan BRASLAU
2011-02-01 16:04 ` beta Marco
2011-02-01 16:10 ` beta luigi scarso
2011-02-01 16:16 ` beta Peter Münster
2011-02-01 16:51 ` beta Marco
2011-02-01 15:42 ` beta Hans Hagen
2011-01-31 18:07 ` beta Otared Kavian
2011-01-31 21:36 ` beta Hans Hagen
2011-02-01 0:40 ` error updating beta WAS: beta Marco
2011-02-01 8:37 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-01 10:36 ` Vedran Miletić
2011-02-01 11:35 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-01 12:51 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-01 13:02 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-01 15:34 ` Marco
2011-02-01 15:41 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-01 15:47 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-01 16:07 ` Marco
2011-02-01 20:54 ` Andreas Harder
2011-02-01 21:30 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-02 10:18 ` Hans van der Meer
2011-02-02 10:25 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-02 10:34 ` Jörg Hagmann
2011-02-02 10:43 ` Hans van der Meer
2011-02-02 10:45 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-02 10:57 ` Hans van der Meer
2011-02-02 11:05 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-02 11:24 ` Hans van der Meer
2011-02-02 17:21 ` Hans van der Meer
2011-02-02 19:07 ` Hans van der Meer
2011-02-02 20:09 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-02 20:18 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <6593892E-5E1B-4604-91AD-8BFF471AAB88@uva.nl>
2011-02-02 22:01 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-02 12:07 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-02 12:41 ` Peter Münster
2011-02-02 13:58 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-02 14:01 ` Vedran Miletić
2011-02-02 14:21 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-02 14:50 ` Alan BRASLAU
2011-02-02 17:58 ` Vnpenguin
2011-02-02 19:08 ` Peter Münster
2011-02-02 19:27 ` Hans van der Meer [this message]
2011-02-02 20:14 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-02 4:11 ` beta views63
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