Re: tex live and context

["Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Hi Thomas,

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:26 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz  
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
>>> after some testing taco and i found out that tl has recent map
>>> files but
>>> that there's a problem with rsync and time outs on large trees,
>>> which is
>>> why my local texlive copy is incomplete; so, it mostly depends on
>>> what
>>> snapshot one uses
>>
>> This is exactly why I stick with mswincontext.zip, to avoid
>> headaches like
>> this ;-)

> I sympathize, but I think you're a bit unfair here. If I understand
> Hans's mail right, he was not installing from the image, but rsyncing
> his trees with TeXLive, and that's where the error was. I've been
> running the development version for at least three months now (even
> when it still was called 2006...) and haven't had any troubles,
> especially wrt to fonts and packages.

Point taken, although for the record I finally abandoned TeXLive a couple  
of years ago or so because of headaches with getting ever-newer versions  
of ConTeXt working right, then there was aleph and...

> On a linux or OS X box, I would
> even recommend installing it alongside the minimal and switch between
> them to test things, but I have no idea if/how this is possible on
> winblows.

Well, there's setuptex.bat which allows this and I do have a XemTeX tree  
 from Fabrice. Maybe I'll update XemTeX and see what happens.

Best
Idris

-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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