[Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Sébastien Maret
Hi all, I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the end-user. Pretty much everything that could get wrong actually got wrong: 1 - It took us a while to get the correct XCode version for 10.6 on Apple

[Fink-devel] future os merge

2012-06-15 Thread Jack Howarth
Alexander, I just noticed that the following sections of my ml.diff were never added to the future os branch just merged with trunk... diff --git a/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm b/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm index e51482c..4b8a7cc 100644 --- a/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm +++ b/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm @@

Re: [Fink-devel] future os merge

2012-06-15 Thread Daniel Macks
Pushed to master. dan On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:19:39 -0400, Jack Howarth howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu wrote: Alexander, I just noticed that the following sections of my ml.diff were never added to the future os branch just merged with trunk... diff --git a/perlmod/Fink/Services.pm

Re: [Fink-devel] future os merge

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/15/12 7:53 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: Pushed to master. dan On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:19:39 -0400, Jack Howarth howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu wrote: Alexander, I just noticed that the following sections of my ml.diff were never added to the future os branch just merged with trunk... diff

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: Hi all, I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the end-user. Pretty much everything that could get wrong actually got wrong: 1 - It took us a while to

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 15, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: Hi all, I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the end-user. Pretty much everything that could get

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/15/12 9:06 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Jun 15, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: Hi all, I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague computer. This made me realize how complicated it is for the

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Sjors Gielen
Op 15-06-12 17:53, Alexander Hansen schreef: I believe that signing packages might require a newer dpkg/apt. I've been testing updates, but (A) they still need some fixes to be fully functional, (B) the person who had been working on them (Sjors) isn't able to devote large chunks of time, and