Hi Frank.
I'm very familiar with fink from my MacOSX 10.0-10.1.5 days. I have since stopped using it, as it tends to be "selfish" with the filesystem, and generally inflexible. IMHO, of course.
Um, err... fink had crossed my mind as being a way to start with debian packages, though. It does indeed use the debian distribution system for binaries.
So but is it better to get a jump-start with a non-optimal system, and then try to get users to switch later, or spend a bit of time trying to get it closer-to-optimal on the first try?
adam
Frank Barknecht said this at Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:20:18 +0100:
Hi, Adam Lindsay schrieb:
I've been giving some thought to that on the OSX side, mostly with regards to the packaging system.
We could emulate your debian approach--how does that lay out files for externals (and their associated source, help, and other files)?
Did you take a look at Fink: http://fink.sourceforge.net/ It seems to be very much like Debian, at least it uses the Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to distribute packages.
As Debian packages of pure-data.sf.net are almost ready to go, this might even save some work.
ciao
Frank Barknecht
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