On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 11:03 AM, Michael Maibaum wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Thursday, Sep 26, 2002, at 17:21 US/Pacific, Ken Williams wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 11:55 PM, Michael Maibaum wrote: >>> and http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports >>> >>> >>> I've submitted ports for Perl5.8, apache with static mod_perl >>> (including a version with joe's experimental libapreq stuff). >>> Only the simplest apache port has shown up in cvs yet...but >>> the rest soon I hope. >>> >> >> Hmm - how is this different/better than fink? All I see in >> the FAQ is that it's "sort of like" fink. > > I think it hopes to be more extensible than fink, in terms of > embedding in other applications (though I know this has been > done with fink, c.f. fink commander) and in terms of port > variants. Also I think the dependancy tracking will ultimately > be more flexible than that of fink. > > Fink is cool, but I think Jordan is one of the few people with > the experience (FreeBSD ports), and the skill (along with > Landon and Kevin) to bring something even better to the table. > We'll see. Hmm - this does burst my happiness bubble quite badly to know that there are parallel projects and that they're not able to directly leverage each other's work. IMO "because it'll be better" is never a good enough reason to re-invent the wheel unless someone can also explain why the previous work isn't fixable. -Ken
