ConTeXt no longer available on Cygwin

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Apr 16 01:40:07 GMT 2023


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.

I've now uploaded texlive-collection-context-20230313-2, containing the 
missing binary.

Ken


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