On Feb 8, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
My impression of fink (and darwinports may be different, I'll be checking that out) is that it's kind of an all-or-nothing proposition. If you want a Linux-like system, running in parallel to OS-X, on the same kernel, you'll be quite happy. If you want it to feel like it's part of OS-X you won't. Being a Linux geek, you'd think I'd be happy with the former, but frankly, If I want Linux,. I'll run Linux (and I do). On OS-X I want OS-X, and, more importantly, folks I work with, that I give apps too, don't want to have anything to do with Linux, command lines, X11, or figuring out apt-get.
Darwinports is a lot less all-or-nothing. I have very few things activated from darwinports at a given time and it works and interoperates with the rest of the stuff I have rather well.
I really think we can get a complete set of OS-X friendly packages out for all to use. it's really not all that hard, once you've got the tricks figured out. We'll have a MUCH easier time getting folks to use python on OS-X if we have nice friendly binaries for them to install.
I agree.
You can hardly guess how good the above music sounds to the ears of the Terminal-ly challenged & similar Mac-hacking persons like myself. I write goofy linguistic-research apps, I don't do systems stuff. People like me love Python too.
Charles Hartman
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