Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 10/5/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>
>> Hans, can ctxtools be modified to give the option of downloading both
>> the stable and latest branch? --updatecontext gives the beta which,
>> being a beta, has occasional bugs. So this method of updating context
>> can not be recommended to new users. How about adding
>>
>> ctxtools --updatecontext --stable to give the stable branch, or
>> instead make fetching the stable branch default and give --beta to
>> download the beta. Maybe even extract everything with --beta to
>> TEXMFBETA folder so that maintaining beta and stable in parallel is
>> seamless. Right now there is texexec --beta for running the beta, but
>> then you have to maintain the beta tree manually.
>>
>
> I would support all that you said (separate tree for beta, --update --beta,
> ...)
>
> Well, the very first bad experience that I had on other computers when
> trying to update ConTeXt with "--update": (un)zip as a command-line
> executable is usually missing on just any windows computer, so newbies
> have to overcome that one first :(
>
some day we will have:
TEXMFLOCAL=zip::c:/mytex/cont-tmf.zip
Hans
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