I really don't understand how TexLive is installed. On Gentoo Linux, the code that handles TexLive installation is complex. I can't reuse code that I don't understand.
I came from LaTeX background. I got sick of handling incompatible modules in LaTeX and decided to try ConTeXt. I had used texlive OS package. I just started learning ConTeXt. In the vast majority of cases, `make install` installs everything. In case of ConTeXt, there is no `make install`. So, there needs to be a document that teaches me which directories I can just copy each source directory of ConTeXt to. Copying luametatex to /usr/bin is going to be easy. I never had to understand TexLive/ConTeXt directory structure because I just used TexLive OS package. Now, I'm stuck reverse-engineering a black box. Am I supposed to execute the following commands in https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror? ``` cp fonts /path/to/usr/share/texmf-dist cp context /path/to/usr/share/texmf-dist ... ``` If you teach package maintainers where directories can be installed, then the maintainers can adapt the instructions to their own linux distributions. Example installation commands can help a lot. install.sh handles the magic behind complex lua functions I don't understand. ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 1:16 PM, Alan <braslau.l...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:42:18 +0200 > Hans Hagen via ntg-context ntg-context@ntg.nl wrote: > > > sorry, i just can't spent time on all the possible variant ways of > > installation .. that is up to volunteers > > > OS distribution packages are the responsibility of maintainers. > "Upstream" developers can, and do, respond to requests for changes that > might make packaging for a particular OS easier, but this is not > directly the responsibility of developers. > > Most OS packages require patches for particularities of that OS > environment. LMTX Context, being minimal and fully portable, should be > very easy to package as most paths, fonts, etc. are determined > dynamically. The Context distribution follows the TeX directory tree > structure, and this might not be the practice of some OS, which, for > example, might locate different resources on different branches of the > system directory structure. Some OS distributions are very particular > about this. > > I cannot understand the thrust of this thread. > > It appears that the only issue for now concerns the distribution of the > luametatex source tree. This is not yet the case as luametatex has been > undergoing much experimentation. A classic opensource depository > would disrupt this experimentation as more people get involved in > wanting to make modifications. I believe the intention is to make a > release once luametatex development settles into a normal state. > > Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
