On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 6:16 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:02 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
Zsh: version 4.0.4 is provided by panther, the current fink version
is 4.0.6
-snip much-
I don't understand why you listed all these packages which fink has
later
On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 8:05 AM, David wrote:
On Samstag, Juli 26, 2003, at 02:02 Uhr, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
Here's my rationale for wanting some fink packages to be removed (or
a system-foo package created??):
Hello.
While I appreciate all the effort you made to list those
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 10:14 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 08:02 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
Tcltk: this one is a little odd: Apple has provided tcl, but not
tk...? i'm at a loss...
Check the list archives-- I believe someone figured out that Tk is an
I'm not sure if you got a response to your initial message or not.
Apple has added a number of new open source pacakges with each major
release of OS X. So far, fink's philosophy has been to keep providing
a fink version of the package, even after Apple is providing their own.
(The only
does it come with ldap support? I think not, the reason for all of
these pkgs are
a) missing build time features
b) so we link again finks version and not apples, linking against
apples can totally kill fink if apple decides to release un updated lib
and we didn't know
this way fink can make
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:02 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote:
Zsh: version 4.0.4 is provided by panther, the current fink version
is 4.0.6
-snip much-
I don't understand why you listed all these packages which fink has
later versions. That's kinda the point of fink. Users want the
Am Samstag, 26.07.03 um 02:02 Uhr schrieb John Davidorff Pell:
Here's my rationale for wanting some fink packages to be removed (or a
system-foo package created??):
Sorry that's nonsense. None of the packages you list should be removed.
In many cases the versions provided by Fink are newer.
Replying to my own email
Also, there have been lots of problems with ncurses, right? well, its
in panther too! if we link against the apple libs so many problems with
many packages will go away! Unless I'm missing something big (besides
any possible upgrade schemes) this is the way to go!
Here's my rationale for wanting some fink packages to be removed (or a
system-foo package created??):
Devel:
AutoConf2.5: version 2.57 is provided by panther, obviously the other
autoconf packages would remain for compatibility. :-)
AutoMake1.6: version 1.6.1 is provided by panther, the
