Jed Frechette wrote: > On Mar 5, 2008, at 6:10 PM, John Ridgway wrote: > > >> ... >> I think that's enough venting for now. I'm sorry to trouble people, >> but I'm trying to help, and feel like I'm submitting stuff into a >> vacuum. >> > > I'm glad you started this thread I was starting to feel the same way > looking at the long list of packages in the tracker, many of which > appear to be outdated or have never been commented on. Should I spend > the time and effort cleaning up the packages I've built for internal > use so that they can be publicly distributed or will they just sit in > the tracker? > > Don't get me wrong I'm hugely indebted to everyone who contributes to > Fink, you all make my life easier everyday. Which is why I want to > give something back and would hate to see Fink go away. > > Would it help the process at all if people outside the core developers > went through the tracker testing and commenting on packages? > > -- > Jed Frechette > > University of New Mexico Lidar Lab > www.unm.edu/~lidar > > Yes it would. The case of "doesn't build on ..." is easy to handle. However, there are other issues to consider that require more effort to address, such as whether a package autodetects and uses libraries that aren't in its dependency list, which causes it to build non-deterministically. There are tools available to look at such issues--but they haven't been declared as "official".
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