At 13:44 Uhr -0500 08.01.2003, John Clements wrote:
I'm considering building a fink package for DrScheme <http://www.plt-scheme.org>, but before doing so, I wanted to ask about its appropriateness. In particular, DrScheme is currently an aqua app. What's the current relationship between fink and Darwin/OS X? In particular, should fink _only_ contain packages that can compile without aqua?The criteria is not whether it compiles on pure Darwin or not. The crieteria is more like: "if it is a true Mac OS X app, except for a very few rare excpetions, don't package it with Fink". There are many reasons for this. In short:
In fact, there _is_ an X11 version of DrScheme, but the aqua version is the one that we distribute for the OS X platform, so that's the one that I'd like to build a fink package for.
* true Mac apps don't need an installer, you install them by dragging them onto your HD
* they don't need a deinstaller either, just put the app (and maybe the app folder) into the trash
* mac apps can be moved freely by the user: I don't keep my apps in /Applications, I keep some in subdirs of /Volumes/apps, and some in my homedir, in ~/Applications. That's something many people do. And it's something that doesn't work at all well with Fink, which manages files that are in a fixed position and don't move.
Cheers,
Max
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