Am 07.05.2011 um 12:19 schrieb Philipp Gesang: > Hi Mojca & all, > >>> What would the inclusion into TL imply? >> >> That people using TeX Live could also install it. > > True, but I was, rather selfishly, thinking about what it would > imply for the module author. Permanent maintenance of one release > over a year? Is it really worth it? After all, most people who > come to this list asking for help with their TL context are > advised to switch to the minimals.
The problem with texlive inclusion is that you can’t use new features from context which aren’t available in the texlive version, e.g. \definenamespace was added after the texlive 2010 freeze and therefore you can’t use the command for modules which are on ctan and texlive. >>>> Once 1 and 2 are met, I just add a single line to sources that trigger >>>> inclusion of the module to minimals (and a separate one for inclusion >>>> into TeX Live). >>> >>> Looks like context needs a package manager. > >> Do you have any suggestion how it should look like and how it should >> work? mtx-update is kind-of package manager, but I admit that I miss >> some GUI (but then again I have no idea how to write a portable GUI). > > The GUI would be the last thing I’d start worrying about. > Basically it would have to receive a list of locations and the > respective VCS, like for instance: :: > > t-filter, git, https://github.com/adityam/filter.git > transliterator, hg, https://bitbucket.org/phg/transliterator > > Then it would call the VCS to checkout the tip (or latest tag or > whatever). Each should have a “.install.lua” in the base dir > containing instructions about where the files should go. (Best > thing is, probably, that no compilation is necessary because > everything’s plain text.) A local register could contain version > information, filenames, paths etc. of the modules installed. +1 But when we have should a file it shouldn’t be requires to have a TDS for the project files because it’s a mess to work on a module when you have so many subdirectories. When you take a look at one of my modules [1] you can see that all my source files under “files” directory and i create the zip with the correct paths from a tex file. When you can something similar with Lua and a text file everything is perfect. [1] https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/annotation/src Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
