garden's vs. pragma's minimals

21 Jun 2008

      On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alan Stone wrote:
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Thanks for your extensive comments Aditya. It's (finally) *much* clearer
now.
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Now you have two options: Either isolate minimal context from the one
provided by the distribution, or make them co-exist. Isolating them is
easy, the minimals even come with a script "setuptex" which does that. So,
you just source setuptex before running context. If you want minimals and
distribution tex to coexits, things are a bit tricky. You need to
understand how the tex distribution works, which is an intangled (for the
want of a better word) mess.
I'll take the isolation option then.
A question about the minimals...
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals mentions "The Minimals are an
attempt to provide the same functionality as the current Pragma's minimal
ConTeXt distributions in the zip files."
What's the difference (in provided functionalities) between the
contextgarden minimals and the pragma ones ?
The binaries at PRAGMA haven't been updated since August, and you can
only update ConTeXt using "download, unzip" approach, which makes you
download the whole zip (independent of how much has changed), and
doesn't update binaries. With minimals on the garden, only a single
file will be updated in case that a single file has changed (rsync
rules!!!).

Minimals might have some files (fonts, binaries) missing (but feel
free to request them) + standalone environment missing as well.

Mojca

Mojca Miklavec

Alan Stone

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