Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-18 Thread Max Horn
Am 18.06.2012 um 10:30 schrieb Sébastien Maret: [...] >>> >> >> 1) We don't control Apple's servers. >> >> 2) I haven't seen this one, but then I'm still using Xcode 3.2.6 on 10.6. >> >> 3) We don't control what ports people's network admins leave open. > > Of course. My point is that if

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-18 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 6/18/2012 4:30 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: > > Le 15 juin 2012 à 17:53, Alexander Hansen a écrit : >> And there's the issue of the "somewhere". In principle we could >> continue to use Sourceforge. Based on my experience with doing fink >> releases lately the file release system is actually rea

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-18 Thread Sébastien Maret
Le 15 juin 2012 à 17:53, Alexander Hansen a écrit : > On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague >> computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the end-user. >> Pretty much everything that

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Sjors Gielen
Op 15-06-12 17:53, Alexander Hansen schreef: > I believe that signing packages might require a newer dpkg/apt. I've > been testing updates, but (A) they still need some fixes to be fully > functional, (B) the person who had been working on them (Sjors) isn't > able to devote large chunks of time,

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/15/12 9:06 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague >>> computer. This made me realize how complicated

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 15, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague >> computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the end-user. >> Pretty much everything that

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: > Hi all, > > I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague > computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the end-user. Pretty > much everything that could get wrong actually got wrong: > > 1 - It took us a whi

[Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Sébastien Maret
Hi all, I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the end-user. Pretty much everything that could get wrong actually got wrong: 1 - It took us a while to get the correct XCode version for 10.6 on Apple de