On Friday 25 January 2008 06:19:22 pm Martin Costabel wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: > > Florian Lindner wrote: > >>Hello, > >>I have successfully bootstrapped fink and now I want to install Fink > >>Commander. I have not found it in the fink package database? Or is > >>only available as a binary? > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>Florian > > > > Historically it was an independent project. We bundle it into the > > binary installers, but we don't have a package within Fink for > > it--probably no good reason we couldn't. On the other hand, we haven't > > had anybody with ObjC knowledge plus enough time to maintain it. You > > can download it via finkcommander.sf.net > > Some historical remarks: There has been a Fink package for FinkCommander > for almost as long as FinkCommander exists. It was only never accepted > into the main Fink distribution. For the reasons you can look at the > archives of the fink-devel list ca April 2002, and also the discussion > on the package submission tracker item#543612 from that time. > > Basically, the Fink project leader of that time strongly hated the idea > of Fink packages installing an app bundle, and he absolutely refused to > let a FinkCommander package get into the Fink distribution. I thought at > that time and still think that this was a big mistake. > > I am keeping such a package in my experimental directory on the CVS > server. It builds FinkCommander-0.5.4 with an additional patch to > distinguish between positive and negative feedback.
I didn't know that was why it was never added to the main distribution--I guess that was before I got heavily involved in project matters. Since we've got a reasonable number of app-bundle-producing packages now (one of which I maintain :-) ) it seems like we really ought to revisit the idea of having the package (preferably Martin's experimental modification or a further update of it) in the Fink distribution. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
