On 5/20/14, 3:54 AM, Mike Wilkes wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I followed your directions in (2), and maxima successfully installed. > Thank you for the work-around. I deeply appreciate the support you have > been able to provide to me and others for 10.5, and completely > understand the constraints on your time required to support and maintain > the most recent fink distributions. Unfortunately, I am "semi-retired", > still having to work part-time as an adjunct teacher of physics and math > to make ends meet, and quite limited in monetary resources to contribute > toward what would be well-deserved extra pay for you to do the testing > needed for a maintenance update for 10.5. > > I am always in a quandary as to why, exactly, I can't seem to overcome > this obsession to keep the old machine up and running. For some reason, > I am not ready to condemn it to the recycle bin. So, bottom line, I > have no idea how many 10.5 users there are out there, or how much you > would require for doing the extra work, but I am willing to contribute > $25 to the effort (through a contribution to the fink project, or > directly to you?). Is such a meager amount laughable in relation to the > effort required? I guess we can see what sort of response you might get > from others. If there are 50 - 100 of us willing to do the same, maybe > it would suffice. > > I wish I understood enough about the fink underbelly, and I suppose > competence in C-programming would help, to be able to come up with > work-arounds like the ones you provide (they often seem afterwords > so simple and straightforward), but I guess if I did I could apply for a > job with the fink project. Thanks again for all you do for this community. > > -Mike > > > > "I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that > handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, > friends make life a lot more fun." - Charles R. Swindoll > <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_r_swindoll.html> > >
No worries, I'm just managing expectations for 10.5 folks. :-) And trying to come up with a way to work from home doing something I enjoy. :-) If you or other 10.5 users want to help test fixes out, it's really not hard for me (given a smallish block of time) to generate a git branch for fink incorporating the changes and to walk folks through the install process. Actually, there's not much C involved in Fink, apart from package-specific patches. The fink tool itself is a bunch of Perl modules. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
