Thanks very much. I have updated my context and the problem has disappeared. 
 > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:42:45 +0200
> From: pragma@wxs.nl
> To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> CC: mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Sadness from a Windows ConTeXt user
> 
> On 4/16/2013 8:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This was a known problem for a short period of time, but I thought that
> > both Akira and Hans fixed it by now. (Hans added a workaround.)
> 
> eh ... you asked me to remove that workaround as the binary would be 
> fixed ... it's either using the build in spec (somewhat messy) or using 
> our own path spec (more controlled)
> 
> the built in path cannot be used to determine if we have a garden 
> version and we also cannot inject something in it as one doesn't know 
> where to insert the texmf path (if not present) because the order of 
> path sis not standardized
> 
> (ok, i could probably mess a bit and try inject the texmf path at the 
> end, which the might result in double loading of trees but i'd rather 
> first see if the bin is fixed)
> 
> the luatex i synced with the garden a few minutes ago gives:
> 
> table={
>   "C:/Users/hagen/texmf/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/",
>  
> "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin//share/texmf-local/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin//share/texmf-dist/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin//share/texmf/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin//texmf-local/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin//texmf-dist/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin//texmf/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin/",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin//share/texmf-local/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin//share/texmf-dist/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin//share/texmf/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin//texmf-local/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin//texmf-dist/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-mswin//texmf/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/texmf-local/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex//share/texmf-local/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex//share/texmf-dist/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex//share/texmf/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex//texmf-local/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex//texmf-dist/web2c",
>   "c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex//texmf/web2c",
> }
> 
> so it looks like texmf is back in the list
> 
> Hans
> 
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