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On 12 Mar 2011, at 13:46, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/12/11 7:40 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> 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. >> > > I forgot to mention that there is an unofficial (though not > comprehensive) binary distribution hosted by one of our package > maintainers for 10.5 and 10.6 which focuses on packages needed for > scientific work, including gcc44 and 45: > > http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/fink-and-binary-distributions/ > > What "unofficial" means here is that the Fink Project can and will do > nothing about server outages. Nor can or will we do anything about > misbuilt binaries other than to change the source-based build > descriptions. Thanks very much for the quick response. I will definitely try this out. Maybe the above link (along with a big warning) could be added to the fink Download page, http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en and the fact that the binary distribution for 10.6 is not available due to a lack of resources could be added to the FAQ? I certainly found a couple of people asking the question when I googled, but I didn't find any replies. - -- Ian Hinder ian.hin...@aei.mpg.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk17i/sACgkQF1LN8Zj+CehDZgCdG1glBJB6Onoc7ybI009DdJaP sJ8An0gEUiFtc5Hwn45XyjXo24OR61iI =dNkA -----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
