Dave,
Actually, when I made my first stab at the documentation a couple
months ago, I recall that I did run across the presentation pdf. From
memory, I believe I glanced through that and finally getting to the
.info example and thinking "okay, this looks like it'll be pretty
simple.'" There w
I appreciate the feedback. I wonder whether you had a chance to look at
one other resource linked from the Documentation page: the slides from
a talk I gave "Using Fink: A Developer's How-To" at the 2002 O'Reilly
OS X conference. During the talk itself, I took people through the
creation of a si
Sean's comments make a lot of sense. The manual should start with a
simple example with full instructions, e.g.
1. put the following content into a file called hello.c
2. put the following content into a file called Makefile
3. type "tar -chofz hello.tgz hello.c Makefile.c"
4. move hello.tgz
Hello,
After having gone through the process of getting a new project added to
fink for the first time, I figured I might as well share some of my
thoughts and insights with others. I know that at least in the
projects I work on, it's easy to get lost in the familiarity of your
own creation an
