Being that this is just a packaging strategy for Darwin and OS X's UNIX ports, I think it would be a little bit of a waste of effort to redesign when the rest of the BSD's are using the standard make and ports collection design.
Jerome On 2/21/02 9:09 AM, "Nadine Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was browsing MacGIMP.org and saw on their front page the excerpt of > John Hubbard's comments on OSX packaging, I though you guys would be > interested or would like to comment. Here's and excerpt: >>>>> > "Earlier this week, Jordan Hubbard of FreeBSD fame and an Apple > employee, posted a lengthy note to the darwin-dev list, which we have > included here in its entirety. His note was more a prophetic admonition, > but he did propose five characteristics of what the package system > should do/be: > > € 1. XML-based descriptive file > € 2. make files no longer mandatory > € 3. treat it like a database > € 4. abstract packaging rules to integrate various formats > € 5. have an architecture prepared for GUI front-ends > There is a lot to think about here, especially Apple's posture toward > the whole situation. " >>>>> > > Enjoy. > > Nuff Respec' > > Nadine > @_| #define CODITO_ERGO_SUM > @_| "I code, therefore I am" > @_| [EMAIL PROTECTED] > @_| http://nadine.kered.org/ > _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
