Hi experts,
Would someone please provide a basic recipe to correctly install the new alpha
release locally. I would like to test the new alpha code but am a bit
confused as to what exactly to install and how.
1. "on the website", is this indeed
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip
as
http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-3.htm
currently lists as (not available)?
Should this be unzipped under /usr/local/context.alpha/tex/texmf-context
for example?
2. "no beta as mkiv needs the trunk version of luatex"
Does this mean
http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/download/frsrelease/350/1332/luatex-
snapshot-0.42.0.tar.bz2
to be compiled and then somehow installed into the local tree.
>From luatex-snapshot-0.42.0/INSTALL
> Post-compilation installation should be a simple matter
> of copying the executable to a normal place for web2c
> binaries and generating the desired formats.
>
> You may want to install the executable under the names
> 'texlua' and 'texluac' as well (create a copy or symlink)
I currently work with the contextgarden minimals.
Under the minimals, these are located at
tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/texlua
tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/texluac
on my machine.
Sorry for such basic questions.
Thanks
Alan
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 19:39:09 Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've put an alpha release on the website
>
> - no beta as mkiv needs the trunk version of luatex
> - a close to complete split in mkii/mkiv
> - cleaned up mkiv code
> - cleaned up mkiv backend (some pending issues)
> - some speedups in mkiv
> - a few fixes in mkii
> - updated mkiv typescripts (more to come)
> - fixes in mkiv structure
>
> this version is not replicated on the context garden as we run older
> luatex binaries there (0.45 release by the end of this month)
>
> you can unzip this file on your locla tree but best first rename the
> tex/context/base directory and make a fresh one as otherwise you end up
> with a weird mixture (due to the definitive split in .mkii/.mkiv there
> are not that many shared .tex files any more)
>
> on the upcoming tex live there will be an updated mkii (either this one
> or the current beta which is basically a current for mkii) and an old
> mkiv (maybe the beta) or a new one but that one will not run then with
> the luatex on texlive as it is too old; this is no big deal as you can
> either use the minimals or use the new updater in the upcoming tex live
> to fetch newer binaries (norbert and mojca showed that trickery at
> bachotek 2009)
>
> next on the mkiv agenda is an upgrade/rework of everything related to
> page building but it might as well be postponed till we have a bit more
> access (which will happen sometime after eurotex); the first priority is
> to get the new structure related code right but as idris is already
> publising books made by mkiv it's not that bad as it sounds.
>
> Hans
>
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