Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- Subject: Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 17:30:52 -0400
The goals may be different, but the underlying foundation and mechanisms
are ideally suited for managing Carbon/Cocoa application installation and
updates.
It is, after all, built on top of the debian package manager which quite
easily handles several thousand packages with complex dependencies and a
wide range of licenses.
While it may not be appropriate to include the package descriptions for
commercial OSX apps in Fink [I actually believe it is-- just separate them
such that you have, say, an unstable/commercial and stable/commercial tree(
s)], Fink provides an excellent starting point if a motivated developer
wanted to solve this problem.
b.bum
On Sunday, September 9, 2001, at 02:46 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
Fink is not meant for the same thing. Fink is meant to create a
distribution of free software patched and ready to go on OS X/Darwin, not
to manage the automatic updating of Carbon/Cocoa applications. Different
goals.
b.bum
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