[dev-context] Mac installation package

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>
> Am 24.08.2009 um 16:27 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>
>>>>> To stop the TeX run we can have
>>>>> \setupmodule[contextversion=2009.08.22]
>>>>> at the begin of a module and ConTeXt will abort the run if the key 
>>>>> 'contextversion' has a value and context is older than the user has 
>>>>> requested.
>>>> Do you want this to check to be part of the definition of \setupmodule? 
>>>> One difficultly that I see is that typically this will mean that we need 
>>>> to set this separately for each engine.
>>> 
>>> I don't need such a check, it was Olivers idea and I thought about a idea 
>>> how this
>>> can be integrated without introducing a new command which breaks backward 
>>> compatibility.
>> 
>> I meant that when you said
>> \setupmodule[contextversion=...]", what is the implementation you had in 
>> mind. \setupmodule macro doing the checking, or the module writer doing the 
>> checking.
>
> I think it's up to the developer to write something in the module,
> e.g. 
> http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/simplefonts/src/46a1f454bccc/files/t-simplefonts.tex
> but it's not so hard to integrate it into the \setupmodule command.

Thanks for clarifying. I also think that it is better to do this 
selectively for each module rather than in the core.

Aditya