On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:18 PM, Max Horn wrote:
Interesting; DrScheme falls somewhere in between these two poles, in the following sense: DrScheme began and continues as an X11 package. It depends on being able to locate a large tree of scheme files (our 'plt' directory). It comes with shell scripts for invocation. However, since we seek also to be usable by Windows and Classic Mac users, we've accommodated (to the degree possible) the self-contained-application worldview that these platforms promulgate.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.
The need for a fink package arises generally from our body of anonymous CVS users, who must currently manage CVS and build scripts manually. These people (and others for whom the current effort is too much) would be well-served by a fink package.
It sounds like we can deliver a package that fits the fink criteria well, though it will perhaps take a little discussion.
Thanks for your time,
john clements
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