As a long time user of Fink, I've always loved the way it worked, especially because it kept everything isolated to the /sw folder which preventing a rouge package from destroying everything. In addition, its the only package system that sanely integrates source and binary built versions of packages (emerge is the runner up, but its more driven towards source then binary packages). Awhile back, I experimented the idea of bootstrapped Fink on Windows (with some success; I managed to get it to try and build dpkg which failed miserably, but I never found the time to go back and fix it) and porting Fink to be a usable package system on Linux/BSD/etc instead of just being limited to Mac OS X.
I was curious what the general feel of the community would be on doing such a port. I suspect most packages would simply compile without modification; assuming no Mac OS X specific fixes were added that breaks the compile. Reading the mailing list archives I found a few posts on porting it to Solaris back in '02, but as far as I could tell nothing ever came of it. In addition, should such a port ever happen, I was curious if the powers that be would consider giving Fink official support for anything else beside Mac OS X. I realize fink was created as a Mac OS X specific package system, but I still think its better then quite a few package systems found for other systems. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
