On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 01:24, Andrew Dunning wrote: > > Dear list, > > Has anyone ever looked into packaging ConTeXt for Homebrew on macOS (see > <https://brew.sh>)?
I'm not aware of any such effort so far, but we gladly help you if you are willing to invest effort into creating one yourself. > Providing it as an installation option would make it far easier to obtain the > latest version. Obtaining the latest version is already relatively easy, but I fully understand your point :) > In looking into it myself, I immediately came across the problem of not being > exactly sure where to find a versioned download link. See their guidelines at > <https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae>. Maybe https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror comes closest to what you are looking for, but note that ConTeXt provides several releases per day (or maybe a release every few days at most) which is more resembling individual commits in other projects than one release per every few months as would be common with other projects. The only thing that comes somewhat closer to a release is a version that gets released with TeX Live once per year, but that's not in line with your desire to easily get the latest version. We had the latest version of ConTeXt in TLContrib repository for a while which could probably be reinstated if desired, but that means using MacTeX (even if from HB). If you want to provide a package for HB, you either need to use "HEAD" or create a cron job that will update the package definition several times per day :) :) :) But note that installing ConTeXt alone is not sufficient. You also need LuaTeX, a bunch of fonts and other files (I'm not sure which ones; with the old ConTeXt MKII it was a lot more dependencies than with the new ConTeXt MKIV). The easiest way would be to install TeX Live as a dependency, but from what I saw I suspect that HB only packages MacTeX as a binary installation. You could install ConTeXt on top of that in a way that doesn't conflict. Alternatively you need to spend (quite some) effort figuring out what exactly is needed. I'll probably create another git repository with a standalone installation, but it's not yet ready and you should not count on it. I suspect that you'll find a slightly hard time getting this package into core HomeBrew and that you'll need to provide your own repository, but I might be wrong. I decided against providing a package for MacPorts precisely because it's not really practical to update a package definition every few days. 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
