On 11/5/05, Philip Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 04/11/2005, at 8:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Packages become available for binaries when > > > > 1) They've been tested well enough that the maintainer feels that it > > can be moved to the stable source tree (with the guidance of other > > developers as required). > > > > 2) The package is not of a restrictive license, i.e. it is legal to > > distribute it as a binary. > > > > 3) A new Fink binary distribution is created. > > Is there any way we could increase the frequency with which 3) is > performed? I see hundreds of packages in -stable which have not had > fresh binary versions for weeks and weeks. >
And that would be because there hasn't been a new binary distribution since May (or so). > Originally, I was under the impression that there was a machine > autobuilding packages and uploading the binaries. However this is > obviously untrue. Does the fink project have the resources to have > such an autobuild system established? A minimal setup could probably be done just using one machine--this would take forever of course...but could be done. Ideally, packages would be > built as .info files are committed, and so there wouldn't be too much > of a massive load. > Possibly--though maybe some minimal test (e.g. the package actually builds correctly) should be employed first to keep from having broken binaries "in the wild". > It would also help with testing.. there are many packages which are > stale, simply because there is noone building them on a regular basis. > There is also the issue of lack of maintainership, which is harder to solve. > Regards, > Phil., > > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
