Consolidation:
Yes, getting Gentoo and all the other groups working with Fink was a good idea, but so far it has been poorly executed. There's no organization for the new influx of developers, which makes forums like this almost useless as well as the package tracker, etc. We need a darned "spring cleaning" of the entire site because the community environment is getting screwy. Ben & Ben, you two are the big men on site, make some executive orders and get stuff fixed. I'd even be willing to do some website work on the fink homepage, considering it gets stranger and more confusing by the day. I know PHP and Perl :D
Reliability: //start # fink selfupdate-cvs sudo /sw/bin/fink/ selfupdate-cvs
Gonna try the cvs server...
su mkiwi login -p:serv...hahahahahahhahhahahahaha you don't have permission to access me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The cvs server has had incorrect permissions for weeks now, and people are starting to complain. Whoever maintains it needs to fix it already, and fast.
//end
Target Markets:
A novice user running Fink Commander doesn't know if or why their packages aren't updating. Regular Mac OS X users should be your demographic target, but icky *nix problems get in the way. Maybe it's time to have a Fink Application written with Quartz API's to come along and save the day. With umpteen hundred packages floating around, users need easy access to config settings and other "geeky" parts.
Speed:
Plus, unless you have a PowerMac G5, the Perl scripts are getting too slow to be efficient anymore. They were fine when we just had 400 packages to deal with, but we really need a solid, database-driven command-line option OTHER than Debian. Remember, Debian is for Linux, Fink is for Mac OS X. Reading a bunch of files in a tree is slow (and kinda newbish) work, something not characterized by our community. Maybe it's time to use the XML packages and gcc's libraries to do the dirty work that Perl has trouble with.
I'll end my ranting with this: I really care about the fink community and I would hate to see a bunch of XFree86-type problems happen later on because of problems. Something needs to be done– perhaps my answers are not the right ones –eventually, or organized chaos will turn into unorganized Rock Monkeys, trying to throw various hard objects at other people. Those can stay in Southern Indo-China, as far as I'm concerned.
Spend some time thinking about how Fink could be better... that's all I'm really asking anyway.
Kind Regards, Andrew Hoyt mkiwi (Mr. Kiwi) Independent Consultant
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