[Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-04-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
We've got some maintainers (J. Howarth, H. Todd that I know of) who have access to Mountain Lion. Jack, in particular has been doing build tests. To help expedite updates, I propose the following: 1) Some packages are tagged as Distribution: 10.7, which of course makes them invisible on 10.8. ;-

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-04-29 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:43:33 -0700, Alexander Hansen wrote: We've got some maintainers (J. Howarth, H. Todd that I know of) who have > access to Mountain Lion. Jack, in particular has been doing build > tests. To help expedite updates, I propose the following: > > 1) > Some packages are tagged

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-04-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 4/29/12 10:57 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:43:33 -0700, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > We've got some maintainers (J. Howarth, H. Todd that I know of) who have >> access to Mountain Lion. Jack, in particular has been doing build >> tests. To help expedite updates, I propose t

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-04-29 Thread David R. Morrison
On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:43:33 -0700, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > We've got some maintainers (J. Howarth, H. Todd that I know of) who > have >> access to Mountain Lion. Jack, in particular has been doing build >> tests. To help expedite updat

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-05-04 Thread Jack Howarth
My biggest concern with the 10.8 support is the situation with the perlmod packages. Specifically whether we could adjust fink to automatically handle the newer perl in each OS release without requiring every single *-pm.info file to be adjusted initially. Daniel Macks suggested adding a syste

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-05-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 5/4/2012 8:54 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >My biggest concern with the 10.8 support is the situation with the perlmod > packages. > Specifically whether we could adjust fink to automatically handle the newer > perl in each OS > release without requiring every single *-pm.info file to be adjust

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-05-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On May 4, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 5/4/2012 8:54 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >> My biggest concern with the 10.8 support is the situation with the perlmod >> packages. >> Specifically whether we could adjust fink to automatically handle the newer >> perl in each OS >> releas

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-05-05 Thread Jack Howarth
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 04:07:54AM -0700, David R. Morrison wrote: > > I have a couple of points to make. > > 1) There was a problem with this "build our own fink" strategy with 10.6, > because Apple was shipping a "fat" perl whereas we wanted fink to run in > either 32bit or 64bit mode, and th

Re: [Fink-devel] Mountain lion updates.

2012-05-11 Thread Sébastien Maret
Alexander Hansen gmail.com> writes: > On 4/29/12 10:57 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > > > > The big question is whether 10.8 will use the 10.7 distro (the way > > 10.[56] use the 10.4 distro) or be a new distro itself (the way 10.7 was > > vs 10.6). I find much easier to have a separate tree for ea