>Hi folks: Hello Bill.
>Periodically, I see posted on other mailing lists or bulletin boards >a question like "should I use fink or Darwinports or ..."? I'm not >sure what it says about my state of mind, but I always read these and >come away somewhat disappointed, because fink often seems to take a >beating. From a marketing point of view this should concern me. Somehow it does not. MOst of the comments and statements I have read are either incorrect or they work from the wrong assumptions. For example not understanding how our stable tree really works and that there is a good reason for it to be so 'outdated'. >Of the replies, I seem to be the only person who likes fink. Probably because most do not bother to answer any more. Fink is still the one project that offers most packages. Sooner or later most end up with the system that we emply for the community. >(When I first started grad school a thousand years ago, I met someone >who told me he was from Brooklyn. I said I had never been there. His >reply was "That's ok. You don't need Brooklyn, and Brooklyn doesn't >need you.) Unfortunately that attitude is something we cannot cultivate. There are many things we could do for better Public relations, unfortunately the fink core team is a bit slow in the decision making process when it comes to deciding how to further FDN and get the necessary to fund such efforts. >I wonder if this is something we should worry about, or whether we >should be like my grad student friend? I noticed rather few had >anything of substance to say, but there were references to fink being >more cumbersome, the "unstable" branch being the only one up to date, >etc. No, I would not worry about it. I do not see that these sporadic message have any say in tipping the scale on the opinion one of the majority might have about Fink. However if we can identify the key criticsm then we can counter act with information management. >Is it worth assessing how fink is presented to the user community, or I think I have a pretty good picture of that. >the demarcation between stable and unstable (or even whether the name >"unstable", which I assume is inherited from debian, really conveys >the intended message)? Yes this is indeed something that we might review. >Sorry in advance if I am just being neurotic about this. You are most welcome and I do love to see such concerns coming up from the community, usually I am the one and I was alone with it :) -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
