Re: [Fink-devel] freetype219-shlibs-2.1.9-3

2006-11-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.11.2006 um 07:01 schrieb Martin Costabel: Peter Dyballa wrote: Hello! To create xdvipdfmx from the XeTeX distribution (http:// scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=XeTeX) we need a libfreetype2 with these two functions: _FT_GetFile_From_Mac_ATS_Name

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread David H.
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

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype219-shlibs-2.1.9-3

2006-11-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 09.11.2006 um 07:01 schrieb Martin Costabel: [] For several months, I have been using Ben Reed's experimental version of freetype 2.2.1 that has these features. I think he could submit it to unstable, although perhaps not all problems with backward compatibility

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype219-shlibs-2.1.9-3

2006-11-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Peter Dyballa wrote: Am 09.11.2006 um 21:05 schrieb Martin Costabel: It is from RangerRick's experimental tree, to be found buried in the svn repository on finkproject.org. You can get it from websvn at this address (plus the corresponging *.patch:

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype219-shlibs-2.1.9-3

2006-11-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: I hope so. RR is kept in CC of this thread, in case he wants to submit this version to the unstable repository. If neither he nor the freetype219 maintainer react, I will do it soon. Yeah, I've been meaning to go ahead and release it, but I've been slammed with Real

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype219-shlibs-2.1.9-3

2006-11-09 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 09.11.2006 um 21:05 schrieb Martin Costabel: It is from RangerRick's experimental tree, to be found buried in the svn repository on finkproject.org. You can get it from websvn at this address (plus the corresponging *.patch:

Re: [Fink-devel] Compiling popt: Out of memory error.

2006-11-09 Thread Martin Costabel
James Robinson wrote: [] Let me know if you want any more info. %.acrux ~ fink list fink Information about 5522 packages read in 1 seconds. i fink 0.25.1-31 The Fink package manager i fink-mirrors 0.25.1.2-1 Mirror infrastructure i fink-prebinding 0.7.1-1002 Tools for enabling

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread khorton01
- Original Message From: William Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]I wonder if this is something we should worry about, or whether weshould be like my grad student friend?I noticed rather few hadanything of substance to say, but there were references to fink beingmore cumbersome, the "unstable"

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread askok
static and dynamic, maybe? On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:24:02 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: William Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if this is something we should worry about, or whether we should be like my grad student friend? I noticed rather

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 9, 2006, at 11:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: static and dynamic, maybe? or stable and testing, since that's pretty much exactly what they are... - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID:

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread David Fang
static and dynamic, maybe? or stable and testing, since that's pretty much exactly what they are... stable, {latest,current,development,bleeding-edge}? Even more than one non-stable tree might work, but that might incur more work on the part of maintainers. I've also heard from colleagues

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-09 Thread Lars Rosengreen
On 11/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that the term unstable scares many people away from using the unstable tree. They think unstable means might blow up your system, when it really means changes several times a day. Sure, any new package version might have a bug, but