[Fink-devel] SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives (long)

2006-11-11 Thread William Scott
Hi Folks: It seems I've opened a can of worms. Sorry. My original concern was whether a significant number of users are turning away from fink in favor of other options, and if so, whether this was due to reasons that are valid and ought to be addressed. The first response snapped me out of

Re: [Fink-devel] SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives (long)

2006-11-11 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Nov 11, 2006, at 12:23 PM, William Scott wrote: 1. Is there in fact significant dissatisfaction? (Lots of people use alternatives like MacPorts, but that doesn't mean that they have all rejected fink. If someone uses an alternative, or does stuff manually, as a matter of taste, I

Re: [Fink-devel] SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives (long)

2006-11-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 11/11/06, Neil Tiffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 11, 2006, at 12:23 PM, William Scott wrote: 1. Is there in fact significant dissatisfaction? (Lots of people use alternatives like MacPorts, but that doesn't mean that they have all rejected fink. If someone uses an alternative,

[Fink-devel] revised gcc4 packaging

2006-11-11 Thread Jack Howarth
The attached packaging now properly allows multilib builds of the c, c++, objc, fortran and java languages on Darwin PPC for both 32-bit and 64-bit processor machines. It also will allow Darwin Intel to do a --disable-multilib build of the same (since the the x86_64 Darwin build of java is still

[Fink-devel] Fink Improvements was (SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives)

2006-11-11 Thread David H
Dear Developers and Users. In the wake of the ongoing discussion I am going to offer myself as an archiver. The Fink Wiki is of course there for everyone to add their ideas and improvements, but history has shown that human mankind is 'lazy' I will track the threads and I will try to extract