Thanks for your interesting and very helpful reply Mojca. It's given me
lots to think about.
Best wishes
Keith McKay
On 26/11/2020 18:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 16:26, Keith McKay wrote:
I was planning on getting the new entry level MAC min M1 with 8GB
unified memory but I see that there will be no ConTeXt binaries for
these new M1 chip Macs.
It's not that there will not be, it's just that none of us has
purchased a piece of hardware yet.
A few months back it was possible to purchase one, but:
- it was just a one year rental fee rather than the ability to purchase it
- definitely not available in my country
- one had to enrol to the payed developer program
- and then do a bunch of other bureaucracy (get some special business
number etc.)
- and it wasn't even guaranteed that you would get a device at the end
I was contemplating what to do this time around since 8 GB of memory
is not even sufficient to run a web browser, and the TeX Live hardly
fits on their drive :), but it should do the job purely as a build
machine. (Not that they have "none in stock", but I could smuggle one
from elsewhere as long as the postal services keep running ...)
Would it be possible for a ConTeXt user like
myself to build the binaries on my proposed new Mac? I'm not a computer
professional.
There are three options:
- the existing Intel binaries should work just fine
- yes, you should be able to compile the binaries yourself
- we should eventually get hold of one device for our build farm, or
in the meantime just ask someone for the initial build which should
keep you covered for a while
Discussing when TeX Live will be available for arm is "out of
context". We should get those binaries working before TL 2021.
Mojca
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