On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > Hi all, > > The "current stable" MkIV, the MkIV on the wiki, and the MkIV in TeX > Live are quite different things. > > MkIV 2011.005.18 -- result of first-setup.sh --current > MkIV 2011.10.008 -- version on the wiki > MkIV 2012.005.29 -- version in TeX Live 2012, AFAICT (Mojca?)
Usually it works better if you CC me since there are a lot of emails I recently skip reading (based on subject). > 1. Why not declare the version in TeX Live to be stable? I know Mojca > puts some work into making it as bug-free as possible. It was Hans who has put the work into it, but I don't know why he didn't release a public "current" release. I applied some minor patches over 2012.05.29 based on later ConTeXt version, so it's not *exactly* that version, but I had no idea what to do about the date. I have no idea how Hans uploads current versions, but I could make a zip, upload it to CTAN and make it available as current in minimals. (If I forget to do that in less than a week, please remind me.) > 3. Is there a list of past stable versions somewhere? Probably the best answer would be the (unofficial) git repository: http://gitorious.org/context/context I also have a repository on https://github.com/mojca/context It's not updated though - I update from gitorious from time to time, but not automatically. I tried to make sure that even the oldest version have some consistency. > I can't find > one, and without it the ability to go to a specific stable version > with > `sh ./first-setup.sh --context=date` seems a bit useless. (Can't > really imagine a use in general, though.) http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/context/ Some time ago a new stable version came out at least once per week and betas were rare, for testing features. I think that we asked Hans not to release "current" versions with testing features so often, so that people don't end up with broken ConTeXt. As a consequence he started releasing betas with that pace, but sadly he forgets to release current versions every now and then :( But anyway, manually interfering and making sure that the same version as in TeX Live ends up in minimals (and on the wiki) would not be such a bad idea. > 4. (Less important.) context.mkiv defines \contextversion as e.g. > `2012.08.11 14:11`, but \contextversionnumber in mult-ini.mkiv still > prepends a zero to the month or day. (It checks whether 08 < 10, which > is true even if the leading zero is present.) This causes the extra > zeros you saw in the version numbers above. Can this be changed > without breakage ensuing? That's for Hans or Wolfgang ... Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________