Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taco Hoekwater wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly agree that ConTeXt needs an improved versioning model. I agree. We probably all agree, Hans included. But we also need improved days with more (or longer) hours. That, and pdftex and xetex should stop evolving.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I strongly agree that ConTeXt needs an improved versioning model. I agree. We probably all agree, Hans included. But we also need improved days with more (or longer) hours. That, and pdftex and xetex should stop evolving. Nothing is as disruptive as new

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Dear Patrtic, ... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing. One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day we might have a ConTeXt MKII book for those who are afraid of

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-20 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Dear Patrtic, ... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing. One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day we might have a ConTeXt

[NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-14 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Dear Patrtic, ... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing. One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day we might have a ConTeXt MKII book for those who are afraid of swithing to pdftex2. ConTeXt should

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-14 Thread Ulf Martin
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky schrieb: [...] My experience of using open-source products (I'm best familiar with Moodle) suggest that there should be overlapping cycles in development: 1. Allocate new version number and start implementing new features. Many things are broken at the moment and the

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Ulf Martin wrote: I wonder how people (esp. at Pragma) currently deal with this. What happens if you have a ConTeXt doc from say 1997 that compiles into the resp. PDF with some ConTeXt version from that time but not today anymore? Which ConTeXt versions does one have to keep in order to be

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt versioning model critique

2007-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
On 4/14/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ulf Martin wrote: I wonder how people (esp. at Pragma) currently deal with this. for projects where we use relatively new features (which evolve) we use frozen trees; Confirm One tree of 2002 (still-crazy-after-all-these-years). Another of 2004.