I don't agree. I will never be able to convince my CFO to become a Fink member, not even if we were contributing. Fink is fantastic, no doubt, but not important enough to go through the motions of bureaucracyHello :)
Well, as with many Open Source Projects, Fink is as important as you make it. Fink was and is important to the Virginia Supercomputer Guys, because they run it on their nodes, which makes it pretty important to them. Fink is important to those thousand users that depend on it to install their wget, mozilla, or whatever they need without them having to know what gcc actually is or does.
Therefore I cannot quite follow your line of argumentation while I do follow your idea. Fink isn't a necessity and even though there are little true necessities in our life, marketing and huge amounts of money wasted in telling us what we need tell us different. Fink does not have such a facility, that is correct.
-- and whatever the price, paying means bureacracy. Furthermore, Fink is fantastic for us developer types, but has _no_ visibility to the uninformed -- there isn't even a GUI :).That#s plain wrong. While FinkCommander is not directly developed by Fink, it is an officially sanctioned Frontend and also included in the binary installer. Fink is also very visible when it comes to the actual thing you tried to achieve, because for 90% it simply works.
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Accepting donations seems the way to go.Yes, I am beginning to lean more and more toward that approach as well. It is just a lot more time consuming for those involved with the administrative part of such a none-profit org and that will surely be also me :)
At this time the Mac Fink community is, in my eyes, so small that the effect will not make worth the effort in setting up the infrastructure.Do you consider an estimated 38 000 User, small?
I suggest hooking up with a big brother. Let's contact Debian and ask to use their infrastructure. Debian is our big brother, right? Let's ask them permission to change the name to Debian/Fink.No, we have nothing to do with Debian. While we use the excellent packaging tools, there is no other afiliation what so ever.
In the UNiX on Mac packaging world we are the big player. We are the numero Uno in my huble opinion, so there really is no one to pair with except Apple, which is rather impossible.
-d
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