Re: [Fink-users] Intel support and universal binaries...
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 3/9/06, Felix Ingrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must have missed the discussion on this, but is fink ready for Intel based machine? are the current binaries release universal already? or everything relies on Rosetta? Thanks, -- Felix Currently the Fink project plans NOT to make universal binaries. A major reason for this is that our Debian toolset isn't really geared to handle multiple-architecture builds. I applaud this decision, even if you aren't doing it for my own reasons. Personally, I feel that universal binaries benefit a vendor enormously, by reducing the number of distributions that need to be made, but since most users do not change their setup so oftten that they need the flexibility offered by the universal binaries, and they take up a lot more disk space, and I would expect, they probably load somewhat more slowly (merely a guess on this, but the larger disk size makes me wonder). So, if I have an option, I will never choose to support universal binaries. Obviously, I won't always get this choice, but when I do, I choose non-universal. What's the name of a non-universal? -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=kkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Intel support and universal binaries...
On 3/9/06, Felix Ingrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must have missed the discussion on this, but is fink ready for Intel based machine? are the current binaries release universal already? or everything relies on Rosetta? Thanks, -- Felix Currently the Fink project plans NOT to make universal binaries. A major reason for this is that our Debian toolset isn't really geared to handle multiple-architecture builds. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Intel support and universal binaries...
Excuse my potential misunderstanding, but does this mean there might be a fink-intel and a separate fink-ppc release, or just that fink may have more source trees (ppc vs. intel), as opposed to just those trees that are differentiated by Mac OS X version(s) and stability? Perhaps it simply means that MacIntel users will have to use only source packages as opposed to any binary packages, but still use the relevant tree for their Mac OS X version? I think I'm confusing myself even more now! ;^) Thanks, -Matt On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 3/9/06, Felix Ingrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must have missed the discussion on this, but is fink ready for Intel based machine? are the current binaries release universal already? or everything relies on Rosetta? Thanks, -- Felix Currently the Fink project plans NOT to make universal binaries. A major reason for this is that our Debian toolset isn't really geared to handle multiple-architecture builds. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users Matthew Kozak Rutgers University-Camden [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Ben Franklin ** --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Intel support and universal binaries...
On 3/9/06, Matt Kozak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse my potential misunderstanding, but does this mean there might be a fink-intel and a separate fink-ppc release, or just that fink may have more source trees (ppc vs. intel), as opposed to just those trees that are differentiated by Mac OS X version(s) and stability? Perhaps it simply means that MacIntel users will have to use only source packages as opposed to any binary packages, but still use the relevant tree for their Mac OS X version? I think I'm confusing myself even more now! ;^) Thanks, -Matt There will be Fink-intel and Fink-PPC binary distributions. The source trees will be more or less held in common, but packages that build on one platform but not the other are now flagged (e.g. Architecture: ppc). -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Intel support and universal binaries...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 9, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 3/9/06, Matt Kozak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excuse my potential misunderstanding, but does this mean there might be a fink-intel and a separate fink-ppc release, or just that fink may have more source trees (ppc vs. intel), as opposed to just those trees that are differentiated by Mac OS X version(s) and stability? Perhaps it simply means that MacIntel users will have to use only source packages as opposed to any binary packages, but still use the relevant tree for their Mac OS X version? Our tools already have a way to work between multiple archs, you won't be able to install debs made on a ppc mac on an intel one, that's all. - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Darwin) Comment: Please sign reply-http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkQQgdwACgkQ+/mCMqKrwHBt7QCg133uZAy+7cXbROljm94PGunI gIoAoLXZ+skZPkzrBb6OuSPOYA2x0w8m =HWRL -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
