Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

[Ken Engel]

I found this enlightening - http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/faq.php

Why did darwinports start from scratch rather than adopting something like FreeBSD ports?

Even discounting some of the limitations of FreeBSD ports described above, the "science" of
creating automated build systems is rather more complex than it looks at first glance and there's
always room for fresh approaches to the problem, which is what we set out to do with
darwinports. There are certainly other systems, some of which have already been mentioned,
[ They do provide a link to fink in a previous Q. - K.E. ] which have made their own attempts at solving this problem and there will likely be many more such systems in the future since trying to
find a single solution which pleases everyone is rather like trying to find a single programming
language which pleases everyone - it's more or less impossible. We urge people to judge
darwinports' design on its own merits and consider it a parallel rather than a competing effort
since there's more software out there than any one system can ever manage to encapsulate and
automate.

That sounds reasonable to me.
Ken



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