ConTeXt no longer available on Cygwin

ConTeXt no longer available on Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

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.

Ken

Re: ConTeXt no longer available on Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

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

Re: ConTeXt no longer available on Cygwin

[Ken Brown]

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