Hi Mojca,
Thank you for clarifying a few things.
I have not seen any information how to contribute modules to ConTeXt or how they
are passed up the stream!
A few caveats though!
1) Who „authorizes“ ConTeXt modules for CTAN ?
2) Do not CTAN and TeXLive have pretty much the same guidelines?
3) Who gets to decide what is really „Useful“ ?
I did not mean to say do not use TDS! Besides, one can always install the
„missing“ modules in the TeXLive tree, if they really want them!
regards
Keith.
> Am 26.01.2015 um 14:03 schrieb Mojca Miklavec
> <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com>:
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Keith Schultz wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> The simple answer to your question would be to use this page:
>>
>> http://www.ctan.org/upload/ <http://www.ctan.org/upload/>
>
> No, in case of ConTeXt that's not correct. The idea would be to handle
> everything automatically once the modules are uploaded to
> modules.contextgarden.net <http://modules.contextgarden.net/>. Some
> discrepancies are intentional, some
> are "bugs" (read as: nobody noticed that a module was missing and/or
> bothered requesting it).
>
> I was offline for a while and will explain this later in detail. I
> just wanted to make sure that nobody starts uploading cmscbf and alike
> to CTAN.
>
>> BUT, the MISSING modules or packages are so-called third party!
>> It should be the responsibility of the AUTHORS, to upload the to CTAN!
>
> No, that's not the case with ConTeXt modules. They are synced automatically.
>
>> Also, e.g cmscbf and cmttbf are no longer needed in mkiv! They are for use
>> with
>> mkii!
>>
>> Furthermore, you should concertrate on using ONLY MKIV! Especially,
>> since your audience seem to be introductory. MKII is frozen and IMHO
>> outdated!
>
> It's not so much outdated, but it's certainly frozen and certainly not
> worth spending too much effort in it. (With an exception of occasional
> support for XeTeX which is still an up-to-date engine.)
>
>> I would suggest that you point them to the Standalone stable release,
>> if you actually need the missing third party modules.
>
> No, wait, let's try to clear things up first.
>
> If modules should be on CTAN and aren't, I'll add them to CTAN. If
> modules are on CTAN, but not in TeX Live, we should figure out why
> they are excluded from TeX Live and either make sure that they are
> either added to TeX Live (if there are no problems with licencing,
> packaging etc.) or removed from CTAN (in case they are not really
> useful). We could keep some modules on CTAN if they are useful, but
> don't qualify for TL inclusion for some obscure reason.
>
> "Don't use TeX Live" could be the proper advice for someone who wants
> to use the latest version of ConTeXt, but one shouldn't confuse the
> user just because a module is missing in TL by accident.
>
> Mojca
>
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