On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:52 am, you wrote: Thanks again for the info Alexander, I downloaded an earlier version of planner that may be able to use the earlier versions of the dependencies. I'd like to try building it without any hack first. Would you give me instruction on how to do that? I currently have Planner .12.1 in my home directory waiting. I know you said you ran the .confi script and ran into the version issue. Could you instruct me on running that script? No problem if you decline to do so. Thank you for your indulgence. Brian
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 April 2005 04:46 am, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, > > My question then is, can planner be installed into /sw instead of /usr? > > You're free to install it wherever you want. However, installing > manually under Fink can cause complications if, for example, it > installs a file of the same name but different functionality to one > that was installed via Fink. > > > I understand Martin's motivation and I am clear that the fink project > > couldn't > > possibly endorse non-fink methods and believe me I took his admonition > > very > > seriously before he even wrote it! I feel that every time that I > > execute > > some potential fix that I get from the list that I am taking a risk at > > some > > level. One local Mac shop told me to "never, ever use open source or > > beta > > stuff on your box. You are only asking for trouble!" I, of course, have > > chosen to risk some problems to enjoy and be part of what the fink > > project is > > working on. I really feel that it is a potential model for many > > things. I > > never even consider that the fink project is in anyway responsible for > > my > > dabbling and that even when fully vetted packages screw up (like when > > kaddressbook lost all my addresses) I know that it is part of the > > practice. > > Perhaps my mistake was in thinking that Patrick's efforts were moving > > planner > > into the fink world somewhat and that even Alexander's experiment was > > with > > that in mind also. I just need to decide if I want to try Patrick's > > approach > > or wait for some indeterminate period for planner to get ported via > > fink. My > > choice, my responsibility. > > Again, many thanks to all and Martin has helped me out some fixes in > > the past > > and I greatly appreciate the time given. > > Brian > > Technically, Patrick's methodology does move it closer, because it uses > Fink-installed libraries. If planner can build without doing any > hacking in /usr, then it's straightforward to make a Fink package out > of it. It's possible that this would require updated versions of some > of the dependencies. > > -- > Alexander Hansen > Fink Documentarian > [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment > http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
