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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