Re: setuptex files broken in the latest release 2009-11-24

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

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Hi Mojca,

Thanks for your message and attention: I replied to Luigi's message and the saw your answer…
I am going to do what you suggest and the let you know.

I'll write you again in a few minutes…

Best regards: OK

On 24 nov. 2009, at 15:50, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 15:31, Otared Kavian wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all, maybe more particularly Mojca,
>> 
>> I noticed that in the latest release of the minimals (ConTeXt version 2009.11.24 10:13) something is broken: neither mkii nor mkiv work (actually this happened also with the release of Friday November 20, then it was solved with November 23 release and again it appeared today…).
> 
> May I ask you to fetch the new version of first-setup.sh, run it and retry?
> 
> You are on Snow Leopard. Yes, it's expected to break (sorry) because
> so many people have been complaining that they want 64-bit binaries
> (and I could have written a visible warning to the mailing list which
> I forgot to do). I hoped for the fact that the number of SL users is
> small enough, so that they would be willing to rerun first-setup and
> fetch the 64-bit binaries.
> 
> I decided to patch to detect SL, then changed my mind, and then
> changed my mind again after Hans figured out that he's not able to
> boot with 64-bit kernel and requested to support 64-bit platforms
> automatically.
> 
> If you would boot into 64-bit mode (try to boot by holding down keys 4
> and 6), it would not work at all without replacing the version of
> first-setup.sh that you currently use.
> 
> Sure, we should provide fat binaries, but ... two years ago I was
> still working on 56k connection during weekends (if anyone wants usb
> modem, let me know :). The distribution arose from my desire for not
> having to fetch Hans' one-line patches in 4MB zips several times per
> day. Fat binaries would mean some 60 MB of extra space (and I consider
> that a waste of resources).
> 
>> I could solve the problem by replacing the setuptex files coming with the latest release by those of ConTeXt version 2009.11.13 12:45: now I can typeset my files even with Math-Times and mkiv… (Working on a macBook Pro and Mac OS X 10.6.2).
> 
> What changes do you have in mind?
> 
>> Has anyone else noticed this problem?
> 
> Yes, me, sorry.
> 
> Mojca
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