[This is a follow-up to
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-March/253326.html, on the
cygwin list.]
On 3/24/2023 11:00 AM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
On 3/22/2023 12:56 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
As I mentioned in the announcement of TeX Live 2023, there has been a
major change in ConTeXt; see
https://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html
Briefly, ConTeXt development has been moved out of TeX Live into a
separate project. Unfortunately, the maintainer of that project
decided to remove Cygwin support, so I cannot easily provide a context
binary. One Cygwin user of ConTeXt complained upstream, to no avail.
At some point I will probably remove the texlive-collection-context
package, which is now useless. But I am waiting to see how other
distros are going to deal with this change.
If you will be greatly inconvenienced by the absence of a context
binary, please let me know by replying to this message. There may or
may not be anything I can do about it.
This turned out to be simple to fix. I will do that shortly, but first
I want to finish discussing this with TeX Live maintainers for other
distros.
This turns out to be a complete mess, with no uniformity among
maintainers, so I'm on my own. The simplest way for me to handle it is
to package the missing binary as part of texlive-collection-context.(*)
This presumably means that the latter can no longer be a noarch package.
Jon, can you (or calm) cope with a package changing from noarch to
x86_64? Alternatively, I could make a completely new package, say
texlive-context-bin, which contains only the binary, if you think that's
better.
Ken
(*) It used to be contained in the texlive package, but the sources are
no longer in the texlive source tree, and the build system is completely
different.
