-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter da Silva wrote:
> Or is that Fink? The fact that there's two competing ports-based systems > for OS X is a third layer of hate. That's fink. And you can thank darwinports for making their own system after fink was already stable, because Apple wanted their own non-GPL'd packaging system that they then abandoned. ;) (there's a longer version of that story involving competing factions within Apple, but well, it just hurts to remember it.) > Especially when the native OS X packaging scheme (bundles and > frameworks) has advantages over both, but neither of them use it. In a perfect world, where open-source software was written to be modular that would potentially be an option. In the real-world, nearly 0 open-source packages would transition to bundles/frameworks without a billion man-hours of work because they expect to spew their resources all over the filesystem with hardcoded unixisms. Also, Apple's built-in installer package management is only an installer, not a package manager. It has no intelligence as to what happens after things get installed (other than writing a manifest of what it did, completely oblivious to whether it overwrote things in other packages' manifests, etc.) That is slightly not true on 10.5 and up, since they added a bit more smarts to it, but if you want to support any older OSX releases you basically forgo all the advantages of the stuff they've added. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJXnVSUu+jZtP2Zf4RAv9oAJwJl07IUOauYPpMuErAcepsCz20DQCdHIVn RzAeZ/9+1/FvQhyfh2r/PP8= =SBrT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
