The fink package-manager can be thought of as a front-end to some of the debian tools. To port it to another unix, at a minimum you would need to port dpkg and apt, and I don't know how hard that would be. Then you could, in principle, run fink there as well, but I'm afraid you'll find there are lots of platform-specific things in fink's design. Certainly the code could be refactored into a more platform-independent architecture, but there has never been a call to do that.
-- Dave "Jay R. Wren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Message: 2 > > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 22:15:59 +0100 > > From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Fink-devel] A suggestion for the fink package Manager > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > Hello. > > I would like to add the fink packager manager itself as a project to > > Freshmeat. I know that we are already present with the distribution but > > the package manager itself might be interesting to others as well. Not > > only because the release circle is faster and thus we will be on the > > front-page more often, but also because it might attract some > > developers to look at that code and only that code. > > > > We could also supply daily-snapshots that way. > > > > Any objections? > > > > - -d > > > Depends on what this means. I know I'm not part of the fink > development community, I'm really just a user of fink who happens to > also know a lot about unix and programming. I've often wanted > something like fink for various unixes. Solaris and Tru64 (my target > platforms) could greatly benefit from something like fink. The ease in > creating a .info file and specifying dependancies and having that app > compile is wonderful. Source to bin package(deb) to installed package > is great. > > I'm not sure of fink's usage of dep, but if It could bootstrap a deb > package environment on any unix I would consider it a powerful and very > useful tool. I thought there might be some porting involved, but I > might just give it a try on another unix platform. > > -- > Jay R. Wren > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++, C#, Java, HTML, XML, many more. FREE 30-Day Trial. www.slickedit.com/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
