Re: A thought

Salter, Adam Q wrote:

> 
> I was just thinking about this project and it occurred to me that it 
> would be great to have an automated way to do the builds and, of course, 
> I started thinking about Fink.
> 
> And then I thought (with associated thought bubble … ) "Could Qt/Mac be 
> integrated into Fink?" and I couldn't think of a good reason why not 
> (not that I know Fink, or the Qt/Mac build process _that_ well ;)
> 
> The binaries could be listed on Fink and installed in /sw (since they 
> are OSX bundles and can be installed anywhere)… the source is more of a 
> mystery to me though… is there any reason why not?

Read the big-ass "packaging .apps" thread on fink-devel.

Long story short, currently we do not allow packaging app bundles in 
Fink (with a few exceptions)  for technical and, uh, historical reasons.  :)

It's being discussed, but it's unclear whether it will happen yet.

There are plans to make opendarwin packages though.  =)