ConTeXt in TeX Live

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025, 00:27 Max Chernoff wrote:

> The problem
> is that there are only 2 branches---"main", which was last updated in
> February (and therefore too old to work with an updated ConTeXt)
>
>     https://build.contextgarden.net/dl/luametatex/main/
>
> and "work", which is updated daily-ish (and therefore often too new to
> work with the stable ConTeXt versions)
>
>     https://build.contextgarden.net/dl/luametatex/work/
>
> However, since my build/upload script runs daily, it's pretty unlikely
> that the contents of the "work" branch will be any newer than the
> ConTeXt TEXMF files, except in cases where I'm releasing to TeX Live
> more than a day after an upstream ConTeXt version was released (which is
> what happened for this first initial release, but shouldn't happen often
> in the future). I don't really like this solution, so hopefully
> you/me/Hans can figure something out so that it isn't necessary for
> future releases.
>

This sounds a bit dangerous. Hans is explicitly using the work branch to
test experimental features that have not even been released in the
distribution. Very often those features get thrown away/rewritten based on
testing.

Mojca

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