My only problem with fink is that it has not been updated for Panther.
It had been a no-brainer for years and then suddenly I was back in the
old UNIX land of mysterious command line errors. I found after poking
that lot's of stuff required hand patching (pdl, perl-pgplot etc)
because fink had a hardwired '5.8.0' search path and Panther ended up
at 5.8.1. I suspect a lot of the fink developers had a different
version on the Panther beta. This was in Nov/December so maybe it has
been fixed. I guess Apple should not have changed it, but then why does
fink need to hard code stuff like this?
I almost said 'this is stupid I will just install things myself' but
then the dilemma - do I touch /usr/local or do I create my own third
heirarchy? In the end I used fink and hand tweaked all the info files.
- Karl
On Jan 26, 2004, at 11:32 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Poll question:
If you have installed fink which is true for you:
[ ] Fink has caused SERIOUS problems building or using standard OS X
software (difficult or impossible to work without uninstalling Fink)
[ ] Fink has caused MINOR problems building or using standard OS X
software (easy work around with command line switch or shell variable)
[ ] Fink has enabled use of LOTS of useful open source software
without interfering with standard OS X software
[ ] Fink has enabled use of SOME open source software without
interfering with standard OS X software
[ ] Fink HASN'T HELPED OR HURT use of standard OS software.
[ ] What the heck is Fink?
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