Max Horn wrote:
Am 14.08.2005 um 07:45 schrieb Ben Willmore:
[Sorry if these are FAQs. Gmane archive search seems to be broken]
1. Some of my favourite unix programs ((x)emacs, unison) now have
good aqua-native versions. I notice these are not available through
Fink. Are aqua ports against Fink policy, or has no-one got around to
making packages yet?
More or less against policy. After all, if there's an aqua version of
the package, all you need to install it is to download it, unpack the
.dmg, copy the app to any place you like, done.
Using aqua software doesn't mean buying the shareware philosophy (one
guy builds it, everyone else plays the dumb user) that often came with
it in the past. There are very good reasons to want to build these aqua
programs yourself, and equally good reasons to want to have them managed
by a package manager such as Fink. Traditionally, Application bundles
carried their libraries around with them, but as building open source
software for aqua becomes more widespread, it is quickly getting
unefficient to put the same shared libraries into each of the
application bundles. Hence the use of frameworks, to be installed into
/Library/Frameworks. But then, how to install two applications that need
two different versions of the FontConfig.framework? You get exactly the
same dependency-tracking problems that are usually solved by employing a
package manager.
--
Martin
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