From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: beta vs current
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:37:25 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.77.849.2001301436020.1885283@ervasbepr.pvz.zptvyy.pn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb55ea67-96e2-7fcd-0531-071e2656a8c9@xs4all.nl>
On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Already for quite some years the 'current' context release is the one
> that ends up on texlive. The rest of the year we talk about betas and
> very rarely an alpha release. This distinction no longer makes sense.
>
> From now on there will be no alpha, beta or current (with latest begin
> the most recent of the three, when present): we only will have latest.
> Most users follow the latest anyway and keeping a copy of some tree is
> cheap.
>
> There will of course be the yearly tex live snapshots and these will
> have the year attached to them.
>
> So, effectively nothing changes, apart from the fact that we no longer
> use the labels (and distinction on the website).
I like this change.
> A more fundamental distinction is between the versions:
>
> pdftex|xetex : mkii (probaly not used that much any longer)
> luatex|luajittex : mkiv (also the test for luatex dev)
> luametatex : lmtx (the (upcoming) real deal)
>
> Mojca and I are diuscussing / working on an upgrade of the context
> garden installations and repositories but more about that later,
Will lmtx be available on the next texlive?
Aditya
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2020-01-30 13:18 Hans Hagen
2020-01-30 19:37 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2020-01-30 20:56 ` Henri Menke
2020-01-30 21:56 ` Hans Hagen
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