Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Max Horn
Am Sonntag, 20.07.03 um 07:41 Uhr schrieb Kyle Moffett: I would like to propose a new internal engine for fink, based around an Objective C library that I will call Finch in this email. I will be unavailable for the next 3 weeks, but will work on code in my spare time. When I get back, I

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Kyle Moffett
Why objective-C? Perl would get the job done faster, cheaper, and with a larger installed base of people who can make contributions. With Perl, it is more difficult to add bindings that make it usable in C/Obj-C/etc. On the other hand, with C function callbacks to the Objective C objects, it

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sunday, Jul 20, 2003, at 05:27 US/Eastern, Max Horn wrote: Just one word conflict handling. The single most biggest problem. Plain forward dependencies are trtivial to handle and are already handled in the existing engine. The hard cases are conflicts, and the many many border cases, e.g.

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Kyle I would like to propose a new internal engine for fink, based around Kyle an Objective C library that I will call Finch in this email. Why objective-C? Perl would get the job done faster, cheaper, and with a larger

Re: [Fink-devel] Chris Zubrzycki (beren) / Matt Stephenson (cattrap)

2003-07-20 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Saturday, July 19, 2003, at 06:00 AM, Max Horn wrote: Tried to email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] yesterday, but the mails are not being delivered, SF.net tells me: [...] A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its recipients after more than 8

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Max Horn
Am Sonntag, 20.07.03 um 16:02 Uhr schrieb Benjamin Reed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Kyle I would like to propose a new internal engine for fink, based around Kyle an Objective C library that I will call Finch in this email. Why objective-C? Perl

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Max == Max Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max I don't think any of our performance problems are due to perl anyway, Max and so far nobody (including Kyle) has been able to prove Max otherwise. All bottlenecks I see so far are disk I/O related, or due Max to suboptimal algorithms (i.e. our abuse

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Hisashi == Hisashi T Fujinaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hisashi On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: If there's any part of the Perl programming that is too slow, please demonstrate it with benchmarks. Hisashi Reading the code. I can reread most of my code with some work; perl

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Max Horn
Am Sonntag, 20.07.03 um 17:23 Uhr schrieb Randal L. Schwartz: Max == Max Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max I don't think any of our performance problems are due to perl anyway, Max and so far nobody (including Kyle) has been able to prove Max otherwise. All bottlenecks I see so far are disk I/O

[Fink-devel] mad - libmad update needed for some packages ...

2003-07-20 Thread Thomas Kotzian
hello! kdebase3-ssl-3.1.2-2 kdelibs3-ssl-3.1.2-2 arts-1.1.2-2 kdebase3-3.1.2-2 kdelibs3-3.1.2-2 kdegames3-3.1.2-2 koffice-1.2.90-3 libid3tag normalize-0.7.4-1 xmms-normalize-0.7.6-1 i couldn't install the above packages ... these packages depend on mad-shlibs but should now depend on

Re: [Fink-devel] mad - libmad update needed for some packages ...

2003-07-20 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kotzian wrote: hello! kdebase3-ssl-3.1.2-2 kdelibs3-ssl-3.1.2-2 arts-1.1.2-2 kdebase3-3.1.2-2 kdelibs3-3.1.2-2 kdegames3-3.1.2-2 koffice-1.2.90-3 libid3tag normalize-0.7.4-1 xmms-normalize-0.7.6-1 i couldn't install the above packages ... these