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On 12 Mar 2011, at 13:40, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----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. Are the builds done fresh each time, or only updated when packages change? In which case the two weeks would just be the initial build, and it should be only incremental after that. Is there a plan in place to improve this for 10.6? It would be really useful to have an official set of binaries for the current Mac OS, along with a binary installer. If we add a simple gui, this could be like an "app-store" for free software :) What do you think it would take to get the binary distribution up and running? - -- Ian Hinder ian.hin...@aei.mpg.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk1/SaUACgkQF1LN8Zj+CegrIgCfciRhHtREWdM5SOUBKskqqDMB Io8AnjtM3+RIxTD1yTA0Xtw12BfI1vmz =B5RN -----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
