-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/9/10 10:26 PM, JW wrote: > On Monday 04 October 2010 15:41:08 you wrote: >> On 10/4/10 3:54 PM, JW wrote: >>> I hesitate to make a post like this, but: >>> >>> The "latest news" on the home page is now almost a year old. >>> >>> There is still no binary installer for Snow Leopard. >>> >>> Overall this gives the impression that little or nothing is happening >>> with Fink. >>> >>> Is it possible some new status news could be posted? >>> >>> JW >> >> Like what exactly? >> >> "We're continuing to add new packages and update existing ones?" > > Sure why not? List the most notable examples.
That's covered in the "recent package updates" field on the upper right of the page, though. > >> "There is still no binary installer for Leopard?" > > Maybe there should be ... ? ;-) Are you volunteering a couple of weeks of CPU time? It takes about that long to generate a binary distribution. Historically one of our developers has done this, but he hasn't had that much time of late. Plus, we always have to make tweaks on the installer for each new OS, so we may not be able simply to recycle the 10.5 installer. > >> Fink advances mostly in small increments, so it's often hard to decide >> what is newsworthy and what is not. > > Significant new versions of major software componants (KDE, Gnome?) are > newsworthy. For example since the last time I checked it seems that KDE has > been upgraded to 4.4.1 (I don't remember what it was last time I checked but > it wasn't 4.4). As another pont, the packages page Which "the packages page" are you referring to? I can only edit files based on URLs. :-) says it's still KDE 4.2.1, > even though mac.kde.org says fink has 4.4 and if you search the fink package > list it says 4.4.1. So the "news" (version status) on mac.kde.org has newer > info about fink package status than the fink site does on it's own primary > pages :-) > >> New minor-version releases of the >> fink package manager are often just incremental changes that users >> wouldn't typically even notice. > > But at least a little bit of info every month or two helps keep the project > looking lively. It gives a bad impression when there's "no news" for a year. > > JW > There is the "recent package updates" field, which normally gets updated with each CVS commit. But it's perhaps not as prominent as it should be. The documentation system is a royal pain to make changes in, so when people get busy they often don't bother--you have to do it via CVS, which is often a nonstarter in some people's workplaces. Since I'm going to have time on my hands for the foreseeable future, and just enough bandwidth to do CVS updates, I'll be doing an overhaul of the docs, and more frequent news updates will mostly likely be part of that. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyxLW0ACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8X1gCfQfEcEfQynnMF26FezqOHHEZm GswAnRV2x5wlxhSBtKqq3Qn8kz1By4DL =z0Gc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
