But sure would be nice if Apple supported things like fink. At the very least they could add a copy of the fink binary to future Developer Tools CD.
I agree with Blake if it comes down to competition, I don't mind :) The user should benefit either way.
I would venture to guess that one reason Apple might be supporting a project such a darwinports is as an effort to push better portability of software packages on OS X.
Thought I'm probably wrong about fink, it seems like some of the fink packages require patches that are not part of the standard distributions. Somethings probably just compile fine out of the box in fink. Though you can download the precompiled binaries (I'm waiting for Jaguar binaries).
-Esteban
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 04:11 PM, Blake Meike wrote:
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 06:20 PM, Ben Hines wrote:Actually, Apple is doing the opposite. They are paying engineers to work on (during work time) darwinports, a fink competitor. http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/ It may even be included with the OS. They only have around 100 packages now, so its not really worth using at this time, but fink's days may be numbered if darwinports is included with Mac OS X.Why?
I'd hardly call support for darwinports "the opposite" of support for fink: As long as the apps do become available, I don't think much care which project gets them that way. A little competition may even be a good thing.
Still, personally, I've been using fink since I started using OS X. Does anyone have any insight into why Apple is supporting darwinports instead of fink? With all its warts, it seems that fink has more experience and more momentum that darwinports, at this point. So why the snub?
Blake Meike
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