Re: Strategy for EOLing 10.5.
Hisashi T Fujinaka <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 6/22/12 10:50 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: >> Sounds good to me. >> >> By the way, have we settled on a strategy for 10.8? New tree or not? > > I haven't seen any discussion about it--maybe it's been in IRC while I'm > not there. fink-seed has been eerily quiet, too. > > A major blocker could have been X11. However, it appears that Apple is > kindly providing a compatibility symlink for that. (I'm not sure if > they're still keeping the /usr/X11R6 compatibility symlink, though). > That removes one big reason to use a separate tree, since we don't have > to rewrite the package descriptions or come up with patches for most if > not all of our X11-using packages. > > Otherwise, I'm not sure if there are any issues that would be better > addressed with a separate tree than by sharing one. I'm running on 10.8 with no real issues other than that I'm locally hacking packages without sending anything back. X11 is in a weird place but there are symlinks. -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [email protected] BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core