Re: ConTeXt no longer available on Cygwin

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

[This is a follow-up to 
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-March/253326.html, on the 
cygwin list.]

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.

This turns out to be a complete mess, with no uniformity among 
maintainers, so I'm on my own.  The simplest way for me to handle it is 
to package the missing binary as part of texlive-collection-context.(*) 
This presumably means that the latter can no longer be a noarch package. 
  Jon, can you (or calm) cope with a package changing from  noarch to 
x86_64?  Alternatively, I could make a completely new package, say 
texlive-context-bin, which contains only the binary, if you think that's 
better.

Ken

(*) It used to be contained in the texlive package, but the sources are 
no longer in the texlive source tree, and the build system is completely 
different.