Okay, TexLive will get ConTeXt LMTX. If TexLive was the official way to ship stable versions of ConTeXt, I am okay with having TexLive ConTeXt as a system package and using ConTeXt LMTX portable installer for testing bleeding edge features.
Still, there are a few ways to ship latest changes in ConTeXt LMTX as a linux package. 1. If I could just download a few binary archives and extract/unzip them into certain directories and modify contextcnf.lua in my package build script and be done, I can publish linux packages. 2. If https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror/ contains build instructions as a document, then I can make linux packages against recent git commits. This is better than 1 because linux distribution maintainers can build packages for each CPU architecture. app-text/context would not be able to exist together with app-texlive/texlive-context because both are OS packages. ------- Original Message ------- On Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 at 3:42 PM, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@freedom.nl> wrote: > On 8/17/2022 3:09 PM, amano.kenji wrote: > > > * Will TexLive replace its own ConTeXt Mark IV with ConTeXt LMTX? > > > at some point we will switch to lmtx and mkiv is than just there and can > be used but basically it is frozen (already for a while, apart from fixes). > > > * context lmtx binary installer archive is not versioned. I can't use > > unversioned archives in OS packages. > > > at some point (all depends on time and effort and ...) the source wil be > part of the context distribution so then one can compile > > > * Is it actually possible to present a separate override file for > > contextcnf.lua? If not, I would need to patch contextcnf.lua, or > > contextcnf.lua should support both portable installation and OS-level > > installation. > > > you can put one in texmf-local (as the mtxrun --generate i posted trace > shows) > > > * Can you make it easier to make an OS package for ConTeXt LMTX by > > releasing versioned (source) archives, including BUILD/INSTALL instructions > > in the versioned archives, and so on? I wish I could just extract a > > versioned binary archive into certain locations or use GNU autotools or use > > meson build system which is far better than GNU autotools. > > > there is a github repository for the tex stuff and have no experience > with all that versioning / release / os packaging stuff (couldn't test > it anyway and continuously adapt to teh subtle differences in > distributions and os's) ... we just post zips (already for decades) but > anyone is free to come up with such instructions (e.g. aditya did some > for arch) > > anyway, lmtx is still kind of experimental and at some point > installation will move to the garden (not much is needed, just a web > server) and the packaging scripts are / will be in the distribution .. > there are no dependencies (and we keep it that way: self contained bins) > > sorry, i just can't spent time on all the possible variant ways of > installation .. that is up to volunteers > > > While portable installations can be great for testing bleeding edge > > features and keeping up with latest development, most of the time, I prefer > > OS package releases. > > I never use an os tex release .. who knows whaty has been done with it > .. esp when one has a long term workflow (e.g. fonts can change) > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
