On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Jesse Alama wrote: > "Mojca Miklavec" writes: > >> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: >>> "Thomas A. Schmitz" writes: >>> >>> The basis for my own comments in this thread do not lie in a preference >>> for graphical tools, but rather for a straightforward way to stay >>> up-to-date with the whole of ConTeXt in a way that ctxtools does not >>> currently provide. A command-line interface for that would be great, >>> and so would a graphical tool. >> >> That's not a general solution, but if you need it for yourself, you >> can put the following to some file and execute it whenever you want: >> >> rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/beta/ >> /path/to/your/texmf/ >> rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux/bin/ >> /path/to/your/binaries/ >> etc. >> >> There's a limited set of folders that you need to update, and it will >> only update new files, you don't need to update everything. > > Two questions: > > 1. What's the difference between getting the texmf tree using rsync,
It only downloads newer files & you can fetch binaries > as > you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext? Are those equivalent? It downleady the whole zip every time you call it. > 2. It looks like the subdirectories that I want are > > common > context > luatex > man > metapost > > if I want to follow only luatex development. (The only subdirectories > that aren't in that list are mswin, which doesn't apply to me, and > pdftex and xetex.) I'd like to just put this on top of my TeXLive > (2007) distribution. What about trying to install TeX Live 2008? It desperately needs testers at the moment, and all that you will need to do to stay up to date is fetching: - luatex - context itself - maybe luatool & mtxrun > Once I copy thse binaries to my TeXLive binary > directory, what's the next step? Do I need to rebuild the ConTeXt > format, for example? Yes. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
