Re: R.framework (Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?)

2004-04-21 Thread Etsushi Kato
On 2004/04/21, at 5:23 PM, Etsushi Kato wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@(sed 's/^LIBR =.*/LIBR = -framework R/' \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@@(sed 's/^LIBR =.*/LIBR = -F$(prefix) -framework R/' \ Oops. Since $(prefix) contains slash, this should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]@

R.framework (Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?)

2004-04-21 Thread Etsushi Kato
On 2004/04/18, at 9:56 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: All: I'm working on a new r-base package which will include R built as a framework and R.app (in addition to the command line X11 version of R). I went back and re-read the thread on .apps in Fink, but it didn't seem like there was any consensus

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-19 Thread TheSin
why not just make a new tree on the main, crypto level and call it native or dotapp ?? So it's easily added and removed from the pkg listings. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 18-Apr-04, at 2:10 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: I agree w

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: Jeff Whitaker wrote: [] BTW: python and tcltk could be packaged to do this as well. There is one point with Python, but also with tcl, probably: Where does one put the site-packages afterwards? I mean all the modules from *-py23 packages. In Apple's philosophy, they are pu

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread David R. Morrison
I agree with Martin that we should accept this as the new policy, but for now confine these packages to the unstable tree to give some time to make sure we don't need to modify the policy further. Martin: I was probably the one who suggested in the earlier discussion that the symlink for the .app

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Jeff Whitaker wrote: All: I'm working on a new r-base package which will include R built as a framework and R.app (in addition to the command line X11 version of R). I went back and re-read the thread on .apps in Fink, but it didn't seem like there was any consensus on the issue of whether to in

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff Whitaker wrote: All: I'm working on a new r-base package which will include R built as a framework and R.app (in addition to the command line X11 version of R). I went back and re-read the thread on .apps in Fink, but it didn't seem like th

[Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread Jeff Whitaker
All: I'm working on a new r-base package which will include R built as a framework and R.app (in addition to the command line X11 version of R). I went back and re-read the thread on .apps in Fink, but it didn't seem like there was any consensus on the issue of whether to install symlinks or ali

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Thom Peters II
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 05:39 PM, rand wrote: Ultimately, you have to factor in one thing, what is the goal of the fink project? Is it to manage everything that is ported in one way or another from any unix platform? Or is it to manage a certain type of porting structure? If you thi

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Michael Bain
* Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12 Jan 2003 08:21]: > On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 07:49 US/Eastern, Max Horn wrote: > >At 20:14 Uhr -0500 11.01.2003, Bill Bumgarner wrote: > >Benjamin already replied to this, so I won't do it again. > > He replied based on false assumptions and, unfortunatel

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Kow K wrote: > As far as I can see, the reason that more and more people are attracted > to Fink is *not* because it provides a purer Unix environment, but > because it provides cool stuff like GIMP, well known as the Photoshop > Killer for free. This is my personal observatio

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Kow K
A humble opinion from a list observer again On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 05:18 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, rand wrote: Right/wrong? Not the point, the point is that a lot of users will attempt to move them, we need to realise this and build fink accordingly if it go

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, rand wrote: > Right/wrong? Not the point, the point is that a lot of users will > attempt to move them, we need to realise this and build fink accordingly > if it goes this route. They'll learn soon enough that you can't do certain things. OSX is not OS9. Just because you (t

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 05:01 PM, mathias meyer wrote: situation: you have an app (hidden directory) and a visible symlink to that. We were discussing carbon aliases. Aliases are completely different semantics than symlinks. Do not confuse the two or use the words interchangably.

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 11:42 US/Eastern, Jared wrote: Frankly, because if you want a GUI solution, you should conform to the way the GUI works. Creating something which is only "sorta like other Mac apps" isn't good enough. You shouldn't expect others to work around your decisions. Your de

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread mathias meyer
max, ben, bill and all, let me add my thoughts as well. what is actually the gain of having .apps in fink? for you it is none as you pointed out. the main reason why i'd like, and i might here speak for others as well, to have .apps in fink is the following: software updates might bring great

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread rand
On 03/1/12 7:50 PM, "Hisashi T Fujinaka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, rand wrote: > >> Actually moving the apps is a very valid argument. I don¹t do it all >> that much but the first thing two of my friends did when they got their >> new macs with osx was to completely screw

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, rand wrote: > Actually moving the apps is a very valid argument. I don¹t do it all > that much but the first thing two of my friends did when they got their > new macs with osx was to completely screw the os:) renaming folders > such as [Applications] [thisfolder] etc and mo

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread rand
On 03/1/12 11:43 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message: 8 > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:29:54 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink > Cc: Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Kyle Moffett
At the moment, there are very few .apps in Fink. I am not strongly opinionated on either side of the issue of adding new applications to Fink, but I have an idea for the existing, necessary, ones. In my opinion, the .apps (Such as XDarwin and AquaTerm) that are already in Fink should be put i

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Max Horn
The problem in this discussion is that there are very different basic assumptions made by the various parties. I don't believe that we can get to an agreement, ever. Bill and Ben consider some things for important which I don't consider important at all, and vice versa. I don't actually believe

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Martin Costabel
Jared wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: [] Why is everyone hung up on MOVING the stupid apps Fink does *not* need to support moving of the apps. If the user wants to 'move' the apps, they can create copies or links. Done deal. I agree fully with Bi

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Jared
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:29 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 11:22 US/Eastern, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Jared wrote: Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Besides, at

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:29 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 11:22 US/Eastern, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Jared wrote: Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Besides, at

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: Right, they work fine everywhere. What would stop a user from moving it out of /sw/Applications? In fact, I would expect users to go "I want all of my apps in one place", and move them into /Applications, first thing they do...

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 11:22 US/Eastern, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Jared wrote: Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Besides, at this point, anyone using Fink isn't going to be stopped by having t

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:20 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: He replied based on false assumptions and, unfortunately, I lost his message. Bottom line: If any application is installed in a proper, network computing style, fashion, then no user should be able to move it or rename it without

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 10:38 US/Eastern, Ben Hines wrote: *IF* the user desires the flexibility to move these apps around, they can install them without fink. Or they can create a copy in their account or /Applications and do what they want. But it'll be a copy no longer under Fink's contr

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Jared wrote: Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Besides, at this point, anyone using Fink isn't going to be stopped by having the item in a hidden directory. (Right-click > Show Original e

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 10:12 US/Eastern, Benjamin Reed wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: Read the post. I didn't say that Apps installed by Fink should be in /Applications. They should be in /sw/Applications, to further follow the Fink guidelines. T

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 07:49 US/Eastern, Max Horn wrote: At 20:14 Uhr -0500 11.01.2003, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 14:33 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't generally accept bundled .apps in fink, because they can be moved by the user, and also to keep fin

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Jared
Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Besides, at this point, anyone using Fink isn't going to be stopped by having the item in a hidden directory. (Right-click > Show Original ends that search). .apps just don't seem to go with what Fi

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 07:38 AM, Ben Hines wrote: Ok, i just had another idea... to fully support movable .apps in /sw/Applications, we could create a carbon ALIAS file in /Applications to our installed .app. The user could move that app alias wherever they wanted. RangerRick think

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 04:49 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 20:14 Uhr -0500 11.01.2003, Bill Bumgarner wrote: 3) More and more Unix related tools have native Aqua ports available. tk and wx immediately come to mind. Film-gimp on the applications front. With PyObjC, CamelBones, and othe

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: Read the post. I didn't say that Apps installed by Fink should be in /Applications. They should be in /sw/Applications, to further follow the Fink guidelines. They work fine there. Right, they work fine everywhere. What would

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > 2) Apps can't be moved any more readily than, say, /sw/bin/python or > > /sw/share/doc/apache. Same goes for frameworks. > > What do you mean? > > You can pick up any application in /Applications and stick it somewhere > else and it works just as

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Max Horn
At 20:14 Uhr -0500 11.01.2003, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 14:33 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't generally accept bundled .apps in fink, because they can be moved by the user, and also to keep fink focused. I know this has gone around before... but, to flog

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
2) Apps can't be moved any more readily than, say, /sw/bin/python or /sw/share/doc/apache. Same goes for frameworks. What do you mean? You can pick up any application in /Applications and stick it somewhere else and it works just as well. I can pick up my Mozilla.app and move it to another m

[Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Bumgarner
On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 14:33 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We don't generally accept bundled .apps in fink, because they can be moved by the user, and also to keep fink focused. I know this has gone around before... but, to flog a dead horse a bit more because this has really star