Martin, Max,
Thanks for your replies.
I do think there is value in providing 'aqua' software in some cases
-- for example, emacs builds a carbon-enabled version direct from
CVS, but it's hard to find a .dmg of this on the web that isn't
either ancient or 'enhanced' (where enhanced means altered on a whim
by the packager). Even the one pointed to by Apple's website behaved
strangely when I tried it recently.
I can also see that Fink should not become a shareware distribution
channel but I think providing carbon emacs is a long way from this.
On 8/14/05, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One could always disable the part of the build system that wants
to have
> frameworks and build libraries as for the non-Aqua versions. This is
> done in the qt3mac and scribus-aqua packages, for example.
> Or one would have to introduce new directories, /sw/Frameworks or
> /sw/Library/Frameworks. For years, I have had a tcltk-aqua package
in my
> experimental directory that did the latter (now obsolete with Tiger).
...
> Like we did for /sw/Applications/ (and the related /Applications/
Fink/),
> we would have to discuss this and then decide about a file layout,
but
> perhaps also about some other additions to the build system, like
adding
> -F /sw/Library/Frameworks to the default configure options.
It would be great to have a policy on these issues! It seems to me
that disabling the Mac-like tendencies of every mac-aware package
(i.e. preventing them from building Frameworks) could be more trouble
than it's worth (I did it for the pygame package which is very
simple, and even that required a significant amount of hybridisation
between the unix and darwin configuration scripts). Choosing a
Frameworks directory within /sw/ seems to achieve most of the same
effect at lower cost.
And what is /Applications/Fink? So far, I've only seen /sw/
Applications in use...
Cheers,
Ben
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