Hello Alexander, thanks for your prompt and comprehensive response. I didn't fuss about incorrect copyright dates or other minutiae, just pointing out those areas that might confuse non-expert Fink users like me. I appreciate the work of the Fink maintainers. regards, tom
On Jan 17, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 1/17/12 6:26 PM, Tom Van Vleck wrote: >> The page http://www.finkproject.org/ has a link to >> http://www.finkproject.org/srcdist.php but that page is not found. >> >> Perhaps it should point to >> http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php which does exist. >> (That page says the current version is 0.31.0, but it should be >> 0.31.6.) >> > > Complaints, complaints. :-) > >> The page >> http://www.finkproject.org/download/upgrade.php?phpLang=en mentions >> "/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl" which is not mentioned in >> srcdist.php. >> > > That's correct. You don't need to run postinstall.pl when > bootstrapping. > >> I am trying to use the website to decide if Fink will work for me >> under Lion. A few months ago, many Fink packages did not build for >> 10.7, according to the main page, and a list of packages that did >> not work on 10.7 was promised. The promise is no longer there but >> I can't find the list. > > We never got around to making the list out. Here's your refund: > > > Going to "packages" I can query the ones I >> know I need. For some packages there is nothing in the rows for >> 10.7 or 10.6. I am using these packages under 10.6 now. How do I >> find out if they will work under 10.7? Other packages have a >> blank row for 10.7 only. Does this mean they will not work for >> 10.7? > > Normally, yes, but see below. > >> Examples of such packages are psutils, tidy, uni2ascii, dosunix, >> xml-parser-pm5100, crypt-slleay-pm5100. > > Only -pm5123 Perl modules currently exist for Lion. > > $ fink list -t psutils tidy uni2ascii dosunix xml-parser crypt-ssleay > Information about 4115 packages read in 0 seconds. > crypt-ssleay-pm5123 0.57-2 Perl module, allows perl to use OpenSSL > html-tidy-pm5123 1.54-1 (X)HTML validation in a Perl object > libtidyp-dev 1.04-1 Development files for HTML Tidy > libtidyp-shlibs 1.04-1 Shared library for HTML Tidy > perl-tidy 20090616-2 Improves Perl script formatting and > indenting > psutils [virtual package] > psutils-a4 1.17-3 Postscript tools, a4 size > psutils-letter 1.17-3 Postscript tools, letter size > tidyp 1.04-1 Utility to clean up HTML/XHTML/XML > i xml-parser-pm5123 2.41-1 Perl ext interface to XML parser/expat > > So Lion has psutils (pick -a4 or -letter), crypt-ssleay-pm5123, and > xml-parser-pm5123 > > Unfortunately, the package database isn't currently updating, and we > haven't been able to get a hold of the person who knows how to unstick > it, so the information there isn't getting updated. > > We've been processing requests to move packages as they come in. I'll > cc the maintainers of tidy, dosunix, and uni2ascii. > > - -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk8WHqIACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9zRACePOPMyyUp8PTf47LQLTO97WX2 > xrYAn2204rT4DpeefqNAS17Hb3vsIJ7v > =mNtu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
