At 13:45 Uhr +0200 03.10.2002, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote: [...]
>Darwin should be like FreeBSD and looks like linux because of those >different projetcs. That makes it sound as if FreeBSD had the one true way, and Linux would do it all wrong. However, I don't share your point of view. Just for the records. >We should unite now , when it's easier to do then later when it will >be harder to unite those porting efforts. You are mixing up the port efforts with the packaging systems. IMHO it is not a desirable goal, nor a realistic goal, to merge GNU-Darwin, DarwinPorts and Fink. All three have fundamentally different tool chains, philosophys and aims. So what remains is the goal to avoid porting work being done three times. Again I don't really see the problem: any good porter will make sure that his work is contributed back to the upstream source ASAP. This way, others who come later can immediatly benefit from this work, in fact people that are not using any of the above mentioned systems can benefit from it, too. This already has been done again and again. Of course there are cases in which changes have to be made that can't easily be sent back upstream. But that is a rather small fraction, and nobody stops one from say looking at how a given Fink package does it and then using this information to create a DarwinPorts package. >[sorry for the cross-post, I suggest using darwinports for the follow-ups] FYI, many people (e.g. me) are not on darwinports, and are not interested in joining it either. So that would not be a good idea. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
