KaOs wrote:
I'm not sure what you're really asking. Fink's policy is to not overwrite and/or patch stuff that comes with the system anyways. The most we do is override it with a newer version, but it all stays in Fink's tree...I wonder if Apple will make it impossible for Fink to continue to develop as it has by the introduction of developer tool changes. The reason I ask this is that the EULA forbids the "patching" of add-ons to the "embedded" Mac apps for OS X. Apple is, in other words, giving independent developers a hard time. They support OpenDarwin, but they do not even mention Fink as an alternative. It seems to me that there is little, if any, cooperation
That was not an Apple-specific issue. All of the Linux distributions that use GCC went through the same troubles in the move to gcc3 from gcc2. It was a GCC toolchain bug, not actually "Jaguar" specific. It was just easier to refer to the 10.1 or Jaguar versions of fink than to say "what version of GCC do you have?"of Apple to the Fink Project. The recent "upgrade" that put the Fink project on hold for months eloquently demonstrates that.., as does the recent choice of an inferior browser as "default".
To be truthful, a number of us Fink developers work pretty closely with the OpenDarwin team, so they're perfectly aware what goes on in Fink, and vice-versa. You have to be more specific when you say "Apple". Apple is a huge company, and many of its parts don't know what's going on in the other parts of the company.So I would like to know what is the reality of the Fink situation in relation to Apple......, and should I begin thinking of a complete Debian PPC Woody "take-over" install on my hard drive?
I really don't think there's reason to be paranoid. We don't rely on Apple for anything other than having a base system and developer tools. Going by their direction, it's not like they're going to *remove* UNIX features we depend on; if anything they've become more compliant with the other Open-Source tools as time goes on.
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