ConTeXt no longer available on Cygwin
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Mar 24 15:00:01 GMT 2023
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.
Ken
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