Use latest or current version

Use latest or current version

[Cecil Westerhof]

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I work 'always' with the latest version of ConTeXt. Now a client is going to
use it. Should I install for them also the latest version, or is it better
to use the current version (--context=current)?

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Cecil Westerhof

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Re: Use latest or current version

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 19:03, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I work 'always' with the latest version of ConTeXt. Now a client is going to
> use it. Should I install for them also the latest version, or is it better
> to use the current version (--context=current)?

If the latest version works fine, I would install the latest one.
"Current is not ready to use yet" :) :) :)

Well, now you are welcome to install current of course, but until I do
some modifications/completely decouple it, it often happens that
current breaks/becomes out-of-sync with the rest of distribution.

Mojca
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Re: Use latest or current version

[Cecil Westerhof]

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2011/8/15 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 19:03, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> > I work 'always' with the latest version of ConTeXt. Now a client is going
> to
> > use it. Should I install for them also the latest version, or is it
> better
> > to use the current version (--context=current)?
>
> If the latest version works fine, I would install the latest one.
> "Current is not ready to use yet" :) :) :)
>

I would expect it the other way around. ;-}


Well, now you are welcome to install current of course, but until I do
> some modifications/completely decouple it, it often happens that
> current breaks/becomes out-of-sync with the rest of distribution.
>

Then I'll take the part of the current version out of my document.

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Cecil Westerhof

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Re: Use latest or current version

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 19:46, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> 2011/8/15 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 19:03, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> > I work 'always' with the latest version of ConTeXt. Now a client is
>> > going to
>> > use it. Should I install for them also the latest version, or is it
>> > better
>> > to use the current version (--context=current)?
>>
>> If the latest version works fine, I would install the latest one.
>> "Current is not ready to use yet" :) :) :)
>
> I would expect it the other way around. ;-}

That was the idea, but there are two problems:
- there is no easy way to fix problems in current (and more important:
nobody does it/would do it)
- the whole distribution should be frozen, not just context files (if
modules or binaries or fonts get updated, there may be discrepancies)

I plan to fix that, but that has been on my schedule for over a year already.

Mojca
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