At 13:39 Uhr +0000 05.03.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On the other hand, won't any future Fink GUI have to incorporate some >> IPC to interact with apt-get and install the binary distribution? So >> wouldn't it make sense to go ahead with whatever can be done now? (He >> asked hopefully.) > >Since apt-get and dpkg are written in C, I think we can probably >integrate through that API... I think there might even be some >libraries that we can link against to get the functionality we need. >Perhaps just a generic frontend to dpkg for OS X/Cocoa is in order, >I'm pretty sure that there are ones in GTK/whatever for Linux that >we could use as a starting point or something.
Well, yeah, nice, we can interface to dpkg and apt-get via C maybe. Now what does that have to do with a Fink GUI? Steering dpkg/apt-get is only a very tiny subset of it. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
