Rosalyn Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > DDJ is working on a Lightweight Language CD and would like to possibly > include the MAC version of Python on the disk with the user > documentation. Is it OK if we include the Installer and copy your > documentation with with proper credits appearing on all copies?. > > Thanks you, > > Rosalyn Lum > Technical Editor > Dr. Dobb's Journal
Hi. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "the Installer", but let me explain how a Fink installation works and how (in my opinion) you might distribute it. Don't take my answer as the final word, though, because this hasn't come up too much before and the fink-devel list likes to discuss these things a bit. First, you will need to provide your users with a way to do a basic Fink installation *for those users who do not yet have Fink installed*. It's pretty important that the instructions you give indicate that if Fink is *already* installed, it should not be installed a second time. Probably the easiest way to let them install Fink is by means of the binary installer, available as a disk image file linked from http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php Second, your users will want to install Python. To do this via fink, they install the python package and a bunch of packages it depends on (readline, tcltk, dlcompat, zlib, expat, gdbm, gmp, db3, and whatever else THEY depend on). Assuming that all of these packages have open-source licenses, the Fink project supplies binary .deb files for them as well as source files. You could easily construct an installer which, after Fink was installed, put the relevant .deb and .tar.gz source files into the places that Fink expects to find them. This would save your users the trouble of downloading everything over the internet. (Please be sure to follow open-source licenses by putting the source files on the CD along with the .deb files, if you choose this method.) You'll need to write good instructions, though, for how the users would then use Fink's tools to do the actual installation of Python. OK, perhaps someone will object to the advice I've given, so let's wait a bit for more reaction :-) -- Dave P.S. Fink 0.4.0 should be out in a week or 10 days; since the current version is quite old, you might want to wait a bit for the new one. _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
