[Fink-devel] 'Groups' on fink pkg submission tracker

2004-02-01 Thread Ben Hines
I added some 'groups' to the fink package submission tracker. Please set the field when you modify a submission tracker item. It will let us track the state of the tracker easier by allowing people to see which items have not been touched. All 'open' items with group 'Undergoing Validation' hav

Re: [Fink-devel] Translating man page?

2004-02-01 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le 31 janv. 2004, à 23:31, Bertrand Lupart a écrit : Then I just need to put a notice in the info file for the user so that he prepends the path to his locale man pages to MANPATH. He shouldn't need to. From the man man page: ... More, its man page seems to require the charset in the path: ...in th

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Matthias Neeracher wrote: 2. Foo.app and Foo.framework are installed to /sw/.Applications and /sw/Library/Frameworks respectively. I'm somewhat uncomfortable with .Applications, as that would make a potentially large directory invisible from the Finder. I agree that our objective here is

[Fink-devel] enlightenment-0.16.5-9

2004-02-01 Thread John Philip
Hello. I used fink to install enlightenment on my 10.3 system, but when I tried to load X11, it would fail with this message: dyld: /sw/bin/enlightenment can't open library: /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) I searched the internet for information relating to that err

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Matthias Neeracher wrote: I'm somewhat uncomfortable with .Applications, as that would make a potentially large directory invisible from the Finder. I agree that our objective here is to make the directory "invisible" so users don't mess with the contents, but I feel that this could be achieved

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.2-gcc3.3 vs. 10.3 trees (long)

2004-02-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:54 PM, James Gibbs wrote: I made a list of packages in 10.2-gcc3.3 that have not yet been moved to the 10.3 tree. How about a list sorted by maintainer? That helps a lot usually. Dave PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.2-gcc3.3 vs. 10.3 trees (long)

2004-02-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Dave Vasilevsky wrote: On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:54 PM, James Gibbs wrote: I made a list of packages in 10.2-gcc3.3 that have not yet been moved to the 10.3 tree. How about a list sorted by maintainer? That helps a lot usually. Or you can use the compare-trees.pl script at the top of the trees, w

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread David R. Morrison
I think I might be the one responsible for the suggestion that we should "hide" the location where we store Fink applications. I was under the impression -- which I now discover is incorrect -- that /sw was hidden in the Finder by default. (This raises an interesting question about whether we sho

Re: [Fink-devel] enlightenment-0.16.5-9

2004-02-01 Thread Martin Costabel
John Philip wrote: Hello. I used fink to install enlightenment on my 10.3 system, but when I tried to load X11, it would fail with this message: dyld: /sw/bin/enlightenment can't open library: /sw/lib/libdl.0.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) How did you install it? If this is a bina

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: (And I have to admit I haven't understood why Aliases should be preferred here... a command-line-oriented program like Fink will have an easier time manipulating symlinks, I would think.) For one thing, aliases preserve the app's icon. I put a new version of my finkcomman

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: David R. Morrison wrote: (And I have to admit I haven't understood why Aliases should be preferred here... a command-line-oriented program like Fink will have an easier time manipulating symlinks, I would think.) For one thing, aliases preserve the app's icon. I put a ne

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: [] I really don't think we should have packages install their stuff directly in /sw/Applications in their install phase; instead I think we I'm not sure if I understand you here. The finkcommander package builds in /sw/src/finkcommander-0.5.1-2/FinkCommander and installs int

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Here's an extended quote from Apple's Human Interface Guidelines document: By default, applications should be installed in /Applications, where they are accessible to all users on that particular computer. It may be appropriate to install some applications in the Applications folder in a user?s h

Re: [Fink-devel] 'Groups' on fink pkg submission tracker

2004-02-01 Thread Kevin Horton
At 23:49 -0800 31/1/04, Ben Hines wrote: I added some 'groups' to the fink package submission tracker. Please set the field when you modify a submission tracker item. It will let us track the state of the tracker easier by allowing people to see which items have not been touched. This change loo

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: I really don't think we should have packages install their stuff directly in /sw/Applications in their install phase; instead I think we I'm not sure if I understand you here. The finkcommander package builds in /sw/src/finkcommander-0.5.1-2/FinkCommander and installs int

[Fink-devel] system-ghostscript8

2004-02-01 Thread Martin Costabel
I tried the system-ghostscript8 package from 10.2-gcc3.3 on 10.3 - I even installed iinstaller and the ghostscript8 ipackage. The system-ghostscript8 package installs OK. I even installs when its version is 8.00, although the gs version installed with the iinstaller is 8.13. There is a /usr/loc