On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > some time ago some MikTeX users have complained that ConTeXt doesn't > > work on MikTeX. It seems to be a problem with MikTeX itself since this > > workaround seems to solve the problem, at least temporary: > > ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX > > 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" texexec > > I'm not so quick to blame MiKTeX -- I suspect texmfstart.rb would need > to provide some path searching tailored to MiKTeX. It seems to rely > on $0 with a tetex/texlive directory structure where SELFAUTOPARENT > can be used.
Christian has indeed replied that he uses the binary version of texmfstart from CTAN (which is a bit older that the one on PRAGMA). But I still don't understand what can go wrong "in the middle of nothing", without any major changes. So there is either a problem in MikTeX or in ConTeXt. > The only criticism of MiKTeX is that it is silly to distribute > a broken package, but then it is up to ConTeXt users to report breakage > and, ideally, supply fixes. I completely agree. Except that I have no MikTeX any more. And I don't have the slightest idea what could have caused the problem. I don't see any serious changes in the texmfstart code that could break the 3-week-old version, while it has worked OK before. Mea culpa. I should have forced Hans to fix it during BachoTeX ... :) I will try to misuse some windows computer next week to see if I can find any bugs (but it's difficult to test since one cannot simply modify the ruby script as on other platforms). > > (But apparently there are not many MikTeX users on the list anyway. > > Else more would have complained.) > > Don't complain, just switch to a platform/distro where ConTeXt works > and use mpm (since few others provide updates with the speed and > convenience of MiKTeX). > > I think MiKTeX should remain focusing on the packages and binaries, > and rely on upstream to fix broken packages. I agree. But I have thought that some change in MikTeX might have occurred in the meantime. 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
