September 2010 - binary-builders

[Context] [Bug 379146] [NEW] mtxrun
by Mojca Miklavec 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

Public bug reported: from Alan BRASLAU, untested I did a fresh install of the minimals today and observed a fleeting, obscure mtxrun bug: $ context myfile did not find the script mtx-context.lua $ mtxrun --script /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/\ scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua myfile ran fine, as now does all subsequent runs of "context myfile". So something gets initialized, but is not found by default. You will only notice this upon a (totally) fresh install. ** Affects: context Importance: Undecided Status: New -- mtxrun https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of ConTeXt distribution team, which is the registrant for ConTeXt distribution. Status in ConTeXt distribution: New Bug description: from Alan BRASLAU, untested I did a fresh install of the minimals today and observed a fleeting, obscure mtxrun bug: $ context myfile did not find the script mtx-context.lua $ mtxrun --script /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/\ scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua myfile ran fine, as now does all subsequent runs of "context myfile". So something gets initialized, but is not found by default. You will only notice this upon a (totally) fresh install.

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[Context] ConTeXt Minimals: some statistics of usage
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Hello, As I have promised some time ago here is some raw statistics from the last month (older statistics is not kept on server): There are 29917 different jobs. There are 379 different IP numbers. Bytes sent: 14,451,171,433 The following numbers represent unique IP numbers that have tried to download minimals for a specific platform: platform linux: 94 platform linux-64: 85 platform osx-64: 68 platform mswin: 65 platform osx-intel: 48 platform osx-ppc: 15 platform freebsd-amd64: 3 platform freebsd: 1 (missing: kfreebsd, linux-ppc, solaris) Mojca (I need to figure out how to use sqlite [and how to install the bindings] before we can start collecting more statistics over time :)

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[Context] [Bug 652044] [NEW] Add CM Unicode fonts
by Mojca Miklavec 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Public bug reported: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm-unicode/ ** Affects: context Importance: Wishlist Assignee: Mojca Miklavec (mojca-miklavec-lists) Status: New ** Tags: fonts ** Changed in: context Assignee: (unassigned) => Mojca Miklavec (mojca-miklavec-lists) ** Changed in: context Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- Add CM Unicode fonts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652044 You received this bug notification because you are a member of ConTeXt distribution team, which is the registrant for ConTeXt distribution. Status in ConTeXt distribution: New Bug description: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm-unicode/

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[Context] changes in building scripts
by Mojca Miklavec 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hello, I do not plan changes until three weeks from now, but I have just realized that: - pdfTeX hardly keeps changing at all - XeTeX hardly keeps changing at all (there have been some recent changes in microtypography though) - there are constant problems with building pdfTeX and XeTeX on different platforms - ConTeXt is leaving pdfTeX and XeTeX behind - both developers of pdfTeX and XeTeX seem to be pretty busy, so bug reports in building process for both of them rarely get fixed - building LuaTeX trunk hardly makes any sense unless it's done on daily basis which nobody does or is willing to do (apart for testing the building process and reporting problems before the official beta is released) - metapost is being built together with luatex - TeX Live 2010 has just been released, so binaries from TeX Live should do their job As a consequence, I plan to change the whole building process into a single step: - just build the latest luatex beta - take luatex and metapost from that build - take everything else from TeX Live - (maybe try to build luatex trunk, but don't commit it into repository) Any objections or other comments? (I feel that frequent building of pdfTeX and XeTeX could help find the problems in building much faster than during the lenghty TL production, but if developers are not too responsive, that hardly helps. When we started the minimals, all kinds of new functionality has been added to XeTeX that was crucial for proper functionality of ConTeXt in XeTeX, but I don't know of any other recent addition with that kind of influence.) Mojca

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[Context] [Bug 263529] Re: TEXMFHOME is missing
by Mojca Miklavec 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

** Changed in: context Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- TEXMFHOME is missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263529 You received this bug notification because you are a member of ConTeXt distribution team, which is the registrant for ConTeXt distribution. Status in ConTeXt distribution: Fix Released Bug description: We currently have export HOMETEXMF=/nonexist This needs to be changed to point to a more meaningful location, with Hans' agreement.

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[Context] [Bug 263657] Re: Add antykwa poltawskiego
by Mojca Miklavec 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

** Changed in: context Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- Add antykwa poltawskiego https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263657 You received this bug notification because you are a member of ConTeXt distribution team, which is the registrant for ConTeXt distribution. Status in ConTeXt distribution: Fix Released Bug description: Is this font going to improve? I mean: should we wait for it to be improved or should we nevertheless include it? There are plenty of files missing.

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[Context] reporting changes in minimals
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, I'm rewriting the scripts for minimals-building (behing schedule, but well ... at the moment I'm a bit more worried about the exams than the conference). I figured out that I need a way to report any changes that might have occurred from one update to another (let's say that updating script figures out that a library has been renamed from kpathseaXYZ.dll to kpathseaXYW.dll and wants to report that change; in this particular case I will now go for "just include anything that ends with kpath*.dll"). The list would then be checked manually every now and then either by me or other volunteers - that would slightly reduce the risk of completely broken installations (for example when the Polish completely rename the font folders from "public" to "nowacki" etc, it would not to unnoticed until somebody gets a broken installation). One question - what way of reporting the changes is: - relatively easy to implement - even more important: easy to review (that is: no zillions of emails in mailbox) I would like to have a few different layers of importance (for example one full log that would tell me when some file has been changed; one file that would notify of new & deleted files, one log that would report errors etc., one report that would tell me "a new context beta is available", one report for "the basic test for minimals experimental has failed" etc.) PS for Taco: do we need the following two files frow W32TeX: - bin/lib/lua/bit.dll - bin/lib/lua/lxp.dll Mojca

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