On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:59:40AM -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2005, at 7:21 AM, Max Horn wrote: > >Fink is not (!) supposed to be a test-bed for an unreleased > >compiler. It is easy enough to build gcc from cvs. > > Yes, exactly. Fink is a distribution, not a testing system. There's > no reason that fink (lowercase, the package manager) can't be used > for testing, if that's useful to you, but in that case you should put > the .info/patch files in experimental or your own private distribution.
I agree with Max here (may as well make it a unanimous core position). There are a few places where we do package beta-release or release-candidate versions, "unofficially-patched" forms or even CVS snapshots, but these are for packages where this version has critical new features or bugfixes. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
