-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/12/11 5:06 AM, Ian Hinder wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly, apologies if this question has been asked many times before. I had > no luck searching the FAQ, the documentation, or Google. > > It would be very nice to have binary packages in fink available for Mac OS > 10.6 I would have thought that this was a common request, as the amount of > time spent compiling is quite high, especially for large packages such as > gcc. Is there a plan in place to make this happen? What would be required? > Is it a problem of someone dedicating a build server to this task? Is the > userbase of fink too small to justify the effort? >
The developer base is small. Historically binary distributions have been generated on someone's personal machines (taking a couple of weeks for a given architecture) and then uploaded to sourceforge. There are no dedicated build machines. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk17abwACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+ArgCgjnL7lLy6htdE+bGWl7pCPdun /vQAnAszyy2RWMW4jMVYBxolSZTunwJ6 =VZSO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
