hmm, on Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:06:50PM +0000, Edd Barrett said that
> Given that few people are using context on OpenBSD, I am going to
> reccommend adding stage two as a manually run step a user can undertake
> *if* they want to use context.
> 
> Is it about time ConTeXt has it's own port? This is what I am going to
> reccommend in the long term. But not right now.
> 
> I am CCing kili@ and espie@, who may have opinions on this.
> 
> Jiri, as a workaround, can you compile context with texexec? This has
> always been the "traditional" way to compile context docs.

of course it would be great to have a working ConTeXt in texlive,
however ConTeXt itself is an insanely fast moving target, on the
verge of a big internal shift (pdftex -> luatex) and as such
texlive with it's annual release model has no chance but to include
what is by ConTeXt standards an ancient version.

ConTeXt is a pure TeX macro package and it does not need any of
texlive's 'overhead', so i have been working on and off (more off) on a
seperate standalone ConTeXt openbsd package since 2006 :]  as there is
no peer/user pressure, obviously the results are what they are: i am a
happy context user on my own box and went with the path of least
resistance.

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/OpenBSD_installation

-f
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