[Fink-devel] ChangeLog of mods for packages ported from *nix to Darwin gcc

I think something that may help us is: listing all of modifications made to *nix packages for the Darwin-gcc in a seperate ChangeLog-like file. This would make it as simple as doing the work, instead of figuring out each tweak for each future version. This may also help other develope

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 09:50 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 03:44 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >> I was thinking along the lines of writing the entire GUI in Perl, not >> really sure though since I don't have a copy of the bridge to see what >> is feasible :-) > > Oh,

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 03:44 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > I was thinking along the lines of writing the entire GUI in Perl, not > really sure though since I don't have a copy of the bridge to see what > is feasible :-) Oh, I see. I hadn't thought about this, your message makes more sense

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 01:43 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > > On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Ken Williams wrote: >> Why not just communicate through shell commands? That seems to be the >> official interface for Fink anyway. > > For humans, yes. It's not exactly terribly good for IPC.

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

At 13:15 Uhr -0600 04.03.2002, Ken Williams wrote: >On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >> >>I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a >>Perl<->Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we currently have >>a good enough way of communicating between Fi

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >> >> I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a >> Perl<->Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we currently have a >> good enough way of communicat

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > > I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a > Perl<->Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we currently have a > good enough way of communicating between Fink and a GUI. Why not just communicate through shel

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

I agree here and have been waiting as well, and learning Obj-C of course :P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a >Perl<->Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we currently have a >good enough way of communicating between Fink and a GUI.

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Will look into it a bit more though, may be a good place to start, or > continue with Finlay's code, or whatever. I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a Perl<->Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we c

Re: [Fink-devel] zsh breaks configure scripts

On Mar 4, 11:58pm, Peter O'Gorman wrote: } Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] zsh breaks configure scripts } } And why are you sending this here? Fink has no control over } which shell Apple decides to ship, although they will eventually } move to using bash as /bin/sh, probably not until 10.2 or even }

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

This doesn't give me an error, but doesn't actually do anything either, just hangs... Building List of fink packages... Will look into it a bit more though, may be a good place to start, or continue with Finlay's code, or whatever. Thanks, Peter On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 12:33 AM, Steven

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 06:53 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > From a short test, it is clear that Steven's project goes far beyond > what Finlay put into CVS (and looking at CVS, there doesn't seem to have > been much progress for the last 8 months). It looks like a very good and > useful util

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 04:22 AM, Ben Hines wrote: > At 11:15 PM -0700 3/3/02, Steven Burr wrote: >> I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. . . . > Is this related to the work in progress Fink GUI that is in CVS? Or is > there lots of wheel reinventing going on? It's not relat

Re: [Fink-devel] zsh breaks configure scripts

And why are you sending this here? Fink has no control over which shell Apple decides to ship, although they will eventually move to using bash as /bin/sh, probably not until 10.2 or even later... Peter On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 11:51 PM, Eric Norum wrote: > Apple uses zsh as /bin/sh on

Re: [Fink-devel] zsh breaks configure scripts

At 8:51 AM -0600 3/4/02, Eric Norum wrote: >Apple uses zsh as /bin/sh on Mac OS X. Unfortunately zsh has a `feature' that /bin/sh will be bash for Mac OSX 10.2. ("future release" aka Jaguar) (zsh list snipped, they don't want the bad news. :) -Ben -- http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/

[Fink-devel] zsh breaks configure scripts

Apple uses zsh as /bin/sh on Mac OS X. Unfortunately zsh has a `feature' that breaks many autoconf configure scripts. The scripts contain lines like: if test "`CDPATH=:; cd $srcdir && pwd`" != "`pwd`" && ... The problem is that the zsh cd command insists on printing the directory! The of

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

Ben Hines wrote: > > At 11:15 PM -0700 3/3/02, Steven Burr wrote: > >I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. Much to my own > >surprise, what I've done so far actually works pretty well. In the > >hope that it might prove useful to the Fink project, I've made the > >Project Builder fil

[Fink-devel] (no subject)

Darwin Developers, Would there be any interest in collaborating with Ximian, inc to port the Ximian GNOME Desktop and it's associated open source projects to Darwin using there pre-compiled binary distribution system? If you don't know what I am talking about please take a f

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

At 11:15 PM -0700 3/3/02, Steven Burr wrote: >I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. Much to my own >surprise, what I've done so far actually works pretty well. In the >hope that it might prove useful to the Fink project, I've made the >Project Builder files available for download a