On 21/08/2006, at 7:57 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Clytie Siddall wrote: >> Hello again :) >> Today, I tried to install poxml. This has been a long and >> frustrating process, but I hope I'm closer than I was. The >> dratted thing seems to want to bring a huge stack of packages >> with it, some of them probably only distant relations with >> dubious habits. > > Seems you invited in some even more dubious folk :-)
Come now, gettext is a respectable package. :) > > Continuing my remarks to your earlier message: > > Mixing Fink packages with self-installed packages in /usr/local is > a sure recipe for disaster. I need gettext-0.15 specifically. fink doesn't have it. > > Fink is a package manager. This means that it needs to control > rather precisely the prerequisites for the packages it installs. > For this to work, it needs a system in which, with a few well- > controlled exceptions, only the pristine system as provided by > Apple plus its own Fink packages are present and interacting. There > is no way to make it work reliably with all the 3rd-party junk one > may dump into /usr/local (or /Library, for that matter). This isn't practical, unless fink is going to offer all the packages people routinely need. I've needed to install occasional packages manually on a regular basis, and I'm not exactly using exotic software. Do you not install anything manually? > [] >> Now, I'm a localizer. I don't breathe without gettext. I have >> recently manually installed the latest gettext-0.15 (which is not >> yet available via fink). > > If you want a more up-to-date gettext package working together with > Fink, your best bet is to create an updated gettext Fink package. I don't have those skills, and I am unable to acquire them. You can't assume everyone has or can. I am very ill/disabled, with progressive brain damage, and I use what I currently have left to translate free- software, string by string. I'm very lucky I can still do that, for now. But basic typing, in in bits and pieces (mostly copying and pasting words), and very basic commands at the command-line, and asking simple questions when I get stuck, are all I can do. I can no longer program, in any language, or handle any processing task. Please don't assume everyone is looking for someone else to do their work for them. Quite a few people are doing the most they can. > > Answering your further questions would be more or less tantamount > to explaining how to create such a gettext0.15 package. That would be helpful if I could do so. Thankyou anyway. :) from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
