Re: A thought

On Feb 3, 2004, at 7:21 AM, Benjamin Reed 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.  =)

I personally think that using the packages with the installers is the 
best way for the end user to install the KDE packages, it is the most 
native and familiar way for most mac users, for me I only use fink or 
think of fink for building non-cocoa native applications, (CLI apps, 
x11 apps,...).

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Coleman Nitroy
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