On Nov 23, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Jorge Acereda Maciá wrote: > David H wrote: >> What feature would you _love_ to see in fink/Fink? >> Why (give us a short example what it would make easier for you) > > I've been quite a long time away from Fink (no Mac at hand), and maybe > these are already implemented. Here is a rough list anyway: > > - fink fetch <package>: download package and dependencies > - fink extract <package>: extract downloaded package > - fink patch <package>: apply patch phase to package > - fink mkpatch <package>: generate a patch from an extracted (and > posibly patched) source, just taking into account files named > <whatever>.orig (that is, copy foo.c to foo.c.orig, then edit foo.c > and > it should generate automagically a patch) > - fink edit <source>: edit file with $VISUAL (or $EDITOR) generating a > backup file <source>.orig (preserving the existing .orig file if > present). > > You know, somewhat inspired in pkgsrc. Maybe we have things like that, > in that case I'd love to hear from other people's tricks (or any > pointer > to any documentation).
I totally second this suggestion. As a new maintainer, the thing that I find more time consuming is having to repeat the hole process just to test a small change. It will be nice to be able to tell fink just to perform just one of the steps. (eg fink test <package> ... for running the packages test) > > >> How do you feel the rest of the community would benefit from your >> request? > > Faster package development? People probably have already these scripts > written by themselves, but for the sporadic contributor it would be a > great help. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
