Re: upto current

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/20/2013 7:05 AM, Otared Kavian wrote:
>
>> So my pledge is this: make any stable version of ConTeXt in TeXLive so
>> that it works and typesets a tex-file « out of the box », without needing to
>> issue any command other than:
>>         context myfile.tex
>> This is the case with LaTeX inside TeXLive, and so I cannot see any strong
>> reason for ConTeXt not having the same behavior.
>
> if it doesn't work that way something is wrong ... mtxrun (to which context
> is an alias) is selfcontained and will generate its own file database and
> then context will generat eits own format (even after an update) so ...

Yes, this seems a bit weird. ConTeXt in TeX Live 2012 might have had
bugs, but it should have at least worked out of the box.

It is possible that your copy actually became problematic *after*
issuing those few commands. In particular, running "texexec --make en"
would create a new format at a different location than the system
would put it. As a consequence all further updates become shadowed by
the old manually created format and you would need to run "texexec
--make en" manually for every update, else MKII becomes broken (not
that there were many updates, but this could serve as an example).

Mojca
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