Well, it's reassuring that people can at least admit this is a closed community. (But aren't churches meant to evangelize?)
---- "For using ConTEXt, no TEX-- programming skills and no technical background are needed." (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt) "So why don't you grep in base/* ?" (Luigi; I appreciate the advice but a bit of a contradiction methinks) ---- Also, re "there is only one ConTeXt developer --- Hans Hagen": I'd suggest a few reasons for this are: (1) in order to develop on a project, you first need a the high-level appreciation of the system that comes from documentation (2) ConTeXt does not have any revision control system that I can see (the only source code browser seem to be http://source.contextgarden.net/ which looks entirely custom); all I can find is the SVN of the in-progress manual (3) The low-level macro documentation at http://texshow.contextgarden.net/is a start, but: (i) instead of a custom system with basic editing, a modern documentation system (I'm thinking of http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ used for the *fantastic* documentation of the Python library) would be more productive, and (ii) this documentation is completely non-structured, being just an alphabetical list. (This from the community that came up with "literate programming"?) Also, just having one developer is not at all anything to celebrate, and no, this model of development is not OK. I wouldn't say it's a model for development at all. Other projects manage just fine without naming conflicts. Admittedly this is with the amazingly obvious concept of namespacing, which TeX doesn't have -- though I've just been reading an article <http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb27-0/neugebauer.pdf> on namespacing in <http://www.extex.org/>. James On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Arthur Reutenauer < arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org> wrote: > > (Arthur, what about your church of TeX?) > > I deny everything. > > Arthur > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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