Re: Informal Poll RESULTS

• Subject: Re: Informal Poll RESULTS
• From: Sean Ahern <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:25:28 -0800
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Chris Huston wrote:
> Barring a last minute Supreme Court intervention - it appears that Fink 
> is (dramatic pause): USEFUL.

...to end users.  The questions were geared toward end users of OS X.

Fink is (dramatic pause): OF DUBIOUS USEFULNESS to software developers who
wish to distribute their software to other machines.  That's pretty much
what this whole "fink debate" here on scitech has been about.

I can't recall the last time I downloaded a piece of non-fink software that
required a certain fink configuration.  Please educate me if I'm wrong, but
I believe it's the case that no one who develops software outside of fink
uses fink as a target platform for software delivery.

Not that fink isn't useful - it's one of the first things I install on a
OS X box.  But it's not a useful dependence for software that's going to
live outside of the fink "framework" (heh).

-Sean

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