>On Jul 8,2002 07:45:28 -0700, Vartan Katchikian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >>Dear Fink Admins, >> >> >>We are the best seller french written Mac magazine SVM Mac, and I'm >>the How-To's section editor. We have a cover CD and we would like to >>know if you authorize us to put the Fink Installer and a few packages >>(The Gimp and Window Maker) on our CD. >> >>Regards >> >>Vartan >>P.S. : I'm also about to ask this authorization for FinkCommander, if I get it, I >will need some help to know wich binary packages to put on the cover CD, and how to >configure FinkCommandert so that it takes the packages from the CD instead of going >on the Net (this for the readers that don't have DSL connections). >> >
Dear Vartan, We had one request similar to this in the past. Your situation is perhaps a bit different, but here is the response I offered at that time. Best, Dave Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:43:33 -0400 From: "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: distributing Fink (was Re: Dr Dobb's Journal) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rosalyn Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > DDJ is working on a Lightweight Language CD and would like to possibly > include the MAC version of Python on the disk with the user > documentation. Is it OK if we include the Installer and copy your > documentation with with proper credits appearing on all copies?. > > Thanks you, > > Rosalyn Lum > Technical Editor > Dr. Dobb's Journal Hi. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "the Installer", but let me explain how a Fink installation works and how (in my opinion) you might distribute it. Don't take my answer as the final word, though, because this hasn't come up too much before and the fink-devel list likes to discuss these things a bit. First, you will need to provide your users with a way to do a basic Fink installation *for those users who do not yet have Fink installed*. It's pretty important that the instructions you give indicate that if Fink is *already* installed, it should not be installed a second time. Probably the easiest way to let them install Fink is by means of the binary installer, available as a disk image file linked from http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php Second, your users will want to install Python. To do this via fink, they install the python package and a bunch of packages it depends on (readline, tcltk, dlcompat, zlib, expat, gdbm, gmp, db3, and whatever else THEY depend on). Assuming that all of these packages have open-source licenses, the Fink project supplies binary .deb files for them as well as source files. You could easily construct an installer which, after Fink was installed, put the relevant .deb and .tar.gz source files into the places that Fink expects to find them. This would save your users the trouble of downloading everything over the internet. (Please be sure to follow open-source licenses by putting the source files on the CD along with the .deb files, if you choose this method.) You'll need to write good instructions, though, for how the users would then use Fink's tools to do the actual installation of Python. OK, perhaps someone will object to the advice I've given, so let's wait a bit for more reaction :-) -- Dave P.S. Fink 0.4.0 should be out in a week or 10 days; since the current version is quite old, you might want to wait a bit for the new one. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
