Joel Hacker writes:
>
> It wouldn't help the user, not directly anyway. I mainly
> think this would be a good idea for the maintainers. Having
> only ONE app to maintain, and that ONE app making it possible
> to run ALL the open-source software on a Mac without having to
> reboot. Get it?
It also introduces another point of failure, and a fairly risky
one.
Right now, if X kacks itself, it takes down whatever X apps are
running at the time, but I can still use all the Fink compiled
CLI binaries from the command line.
If your emulator box goes down, then *all* of the Fink binaries
become useless until I can get the emulator box up again.
Why would I want another Classic box running on my native OS,
when I know that I can get most of the stuff running *inside*
that emulator as nice, discrete, native utilities?
I understand your point, but I think it's a more laudable goal to
work to port all this wonderful open source software (albeit
slowly) to run natively on the OS.
--
Viktor Haag : Software & Information Design : Research In Motion
+--+
"Just because they smile and eat chicken doesn't mean they've
learned to master their emotions".
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