[Fink-devel] In Defense of Fink

2002-12-17 Thread Daniel Lord
e behind the wheel of anything else. Fink Project team, thank you. Daniel Lord -- daniellordATtelocityDOTcom GPG Fingerprint: C59E 59F5 1C63 5CFB 6161 067E FF00 A4E8 684A 16BB "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked

[Fink-devel] New Release: Thanks very much for yet another improvement of an awesome tool

2002-12-09 Thread Daniel Lord
It is more than the Source Forge Product of the Month: for I cannot describe in one message the vastness of body of software fink opens to the OS X user. In sum, it makes the Mac simply the most versatile, powerful desktop Unix on the market, bar none. Thank you. -

Re: [Fink-devel] -j[2..] in package builds

2002-12-07 Thread Daniel Lord
cake and still have it your way (not to mix metaphors or anything ;-) Daniel Lord -- daniellordATtelocityDOTcom GPG Fingerprint: C59E 59F5 1C63 5CFB 6161 067E FF00 A4E8 684A 16BB "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife tha

Re: [Fink-devel] More on ..GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-30 Thread Daniel Lord
Three points: 1) Your attack scenario the attack only works for users who choose to install a package without a signature (to opt out of using the installer's verify signature option) and therefore is equivalent to the current level of (in)security. So worst case for a user who doesn't use the

Re: [Fink-devel] More on ..GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-29 Thread Daniel Lord
All, What about an opt-in scheme where everything is signed, but users who don't care can install it without verification. Sort of like the MD5 scheme some projects use--you verify the integrity of the software if you worry about such things and ignore the signature if you don't. Developers wou

Re: [Fink-devel] GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-28 Thread Daniel Lord
On Thursday, Nov 28, 2002, at 12:14 US/Pacific, Ben Hines wrote: The idea of fink is that everyone gets the same deb. There is no variants scheme yet. And I hope it stays that way except for exceptions for SIGs that are handle as such. OS X is a very powerful Unix desktop BECAUSE Apple enf

[Fink-devel] Off-topic Chimera

2002-11-27 Thread Daniel Lord
Seems to depend on what you do with it--I browse a lot of web sites and Chimera seems to choke on some javascript, ASP, and other things and, of even more consequence, it also has very nasty memory leaks as in: 2002-11-25 07:35:54.553 Navigator[685] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x3739840

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-27 Thread Daniel Lord
Works fine for me in chimera. :) Matt In between crashes ;-) Sorry...couldn't resist ;-) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redi

Re: [Fink-devel] The domain Name..

2002-11-27 Thread Daniel Lord
Renaming and brand identity is a big subject. How far do you want this to go? Do you envision moving fink into the mainstream Apple user base? If so, a re-branding is very good idea. While I like fink the tool, I work as a technical marketeer and brand strategy fundamentals recommend that produ

Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

2002-11-02 Thread Daniel Lord
S X, the number one desktop Unix on the planet. Congratulations to all of you who work so hard to make it work so well. Daniel Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GPG Fingerprint: 160A B2C5 DB19 7F67 1BCC 3C24 C6E1 1DBE DF46 36A7 "My dan