First off, I'd like to keep the discussion regarding a Fink CD completly free of mentioning OpenOSX. I don't feel such a CD should be made to spite anybody, but if at all for it's own good. Anyway, here are some quick thought of mine on this:
1) It will be very helpful to anybody with a not so fast connection; to people that want to use an install CD to quickly install this stuff on my machines; for people that want to have a local "Fink server", so to say, where machines behind a restrictive firewall can download stuff; etc. I definitly see a use in it. 2) There is a lot of stuff in Fink. I guess we'll have to make at least two CDs, one full with source, one with binaries. Ideally, both would contain a mini Fink installer that allows you to bootstrap Fink; the binary CD(s) should be usable on any Fink system, i.e. you plug the CD in, and Fink can get packges from it; and the source CD(s) likewise, i.e. it should be possible to get sources from it transparently. 3) Yeah, having a logo would be nice for a CD, and for other stuff, too, but I don't see it as a strict requirement... OK, Justin? 8-) 4) Face it, it's not that trivial to make one, at least if you are not willing to do a sloppy job. Sure, anybody can quickly make an ISO. But for this, we'll want to test it well, and make sure it really works out of the box. Also, it would be nice to provide as much convenience as possible (see 2). In the IT business, you quickly learn that Quality Assurance can easily eat as much time as programming/design of the application :-) 5) To sell or not to sell - I say we should first worry about getting ISOs. Then people can use them or not. Next is we can research whether it's possible to make them available to users somehow. I am certainly *not* willing to take personal financial risks for this, though. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
