[Fink-devel] Future of fink

2002-12-17 Thread Remi Mommsen
Dear all, I come from reading the threads about 0.5.0 Update and the Fink survey. It seems to me that there are (at least) two different approaches about the future of Fink in people minds. I try to phrase them and would like to start a discussion about it. (1) Fink is for unix users who switc

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-29 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 08:57 PM, William McCallum wrote: On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-29 Thread William McCallum
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared library dependencies, "fink validate" errors on .deb file or info fil

Re: packaging Howto --> (was)[Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-27 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Same here. We really need a good packaging HOWOT that summarizes this all; then we add a standard answer to the tracker that points to that HOWTO. Since I do not do any packaging and know little about it, it would be nice if you could supply

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-27 Thread Max Horn
At 15:20 Uhr -0800 26.11.2002, Ben Hines wrote: On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Jeremy Erwin wrote: On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-27 Thread Max Horn
At 17:36 Uhr -0800 25.11.2002, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared library dependencies, "fink validate" errors on .deb file or info file etc, etc, etc

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-27 Thread Jason Deraleau
> > > > Works fine for me in chimera. :) > > > > Matt > > > In between crashes ;-) Sorry...couldn't resist ;-) > I don't think I've had Chimera crash on me since .6 release. And I run nightlies -- JD --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

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] future of Fink

2002-11-26 Thread Matt Stephenson
This would be a lot easier if OmniWeb stopped calling everything it downloaded from the trackers "download.php". Can this be fixed? I am incredibly annoyed by that as well. It is a bug in their server, i believe, but they don't seem to care: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=5688

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-26 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:05 PM, Jeremy Erwin wrote: On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared library

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-25 Thread William McCallum
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared library dependencies, "fink validate" errors on .deb file or info file

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-25 Thread Jeremy Erwin
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:36 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared library dependencies, "fink validate" errors on .deb file or info fil

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-25 Thread Ben Hines
Anyone is welcome to check out submitted packages on the submission tracker, even if you cant commit it, you can check the packages for obvious things like shared library dependencies, "fink validate" errors on .deb file or info file etc, etc, etc. I get rather tired of explaining the same thin

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-25 Thread William McCallum
Dave, Perhaps those of us (like me) who submit fairly straightforward packages that more or less compile out of the box could help in dealing with the submission of like packages. One of the big honchos would still have to do the assignment of packages, but then we could do the routine checkin

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-25 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Montag, November 25, 2002, at 10:03 Uhr, David R. Morrison wrote: Please don't drop out, if this describes you! We'll try to work out better ways of incorporating your efforts into Fink. I can only attest to what David has already been s

[Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-25 Thread David R. Morrison
The discussion earlier, plus some private emails I received, got me thinking some more about what Fink needs at this point. Actually, it's not *just* that we need volunteers; we need a more effective way of using the talents of people who are willing to volunteer. Just to give one example: the wa