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We are working on bring the bindist back online. Check that out before you put too much work into it. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-12-21, at 9:49 AM, Kevin Ingwersen <ingwie2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 21.12.2013 um 08:03 schrieb Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>: > >> On 12/20/13 10:08 PM, Kevin Ingwersen wrote: >>> Hey. >>> >>> I just saw that there is a 0.9 release, targeting very old OS X versions. >>> How could one create a binary package for such redistribution? I have a >>> pretty blank distribution right here. >>> >>> Kind regards, Ingwie >> >> In the past we've done the following: >> >> 1) Build most of the available packages in the stable tree for a particular >> distribution for supported architectures and host them to a server. There >> are a couple of somewhat automated tools that folks use to do that. We >> stopped providing binaries in part because we were mostly relying on one >> particular developer to be able to take a machine down for a period of >> several days to build the packages and upload them to our main server, and >> it got to be too much effort. >> >> 2) Create the actual installer. This has historically been problematic for >> reasons I don't completely understand--the changes seemed never to be >> trivial. The installer script sources are stored at >> >> https://github.com/fink/scripts/tree/master/installer >> >> -- >> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. >> Fink User Liaison >> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > > Well, I have a Mac Mini that runs all day; its a homeserver that does a lot > of automated tasks. It wouldn’t be a biggie to add some compiling…it would at > least take use of the otherwise idling processor ^^. > I’ll look into that, because I saw that you can install GCC and alike thru it > - thats pretty convinient imho, especially on older OS X’es. > > Kind regards, Ingwie > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
