Re: [Fink-devel] Apache 2.0.35

2002-04-16 Thread Ken Williams
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 08:02 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: I would like to try to help package Apache 2.0 in Fink after I get it running on my own machine, overwriting Apple's version 1.3. The other day I asked about packaging later versions of perl, and was told that fink overwriting

[Fink-devel] How to install things that the vendor also supplies

2002-04-15 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, In the package request tracker there's an item for perl 5.6.1, which would be very valuable for a lot of people. So would perl 5.7.2, and the upcoming perl 5.8.0. The only problem is what to do with the Apple-installed version at /usr/bin/perl . There are a few choices, and this

Re: [Fink-devel] ever-changing upstream source

2002-03-11 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Yoav Felberbaum wrote: At 13:53 -0500 11/3/02, David R. Morrison wrote: I discovered in the last few weeks that for one of my packages (latex2html) the upstream source changes from time to time without the name of the sourcefile changing. I've

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

2002-03-04 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a Perl-Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we currently have a good enough way of communicating between Fink and a GUI. Why not just communicate through shell

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

2002-03-04 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 01:43 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Ken Williams wrote: Why not just communicate through shell commands? That seems to be the official interface for Fink anyway. For humans, yes. It's not exactly terribly good for IPC

Re: [Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

2002-03-04 Thread Ken Williams
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 03:44 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: I was thinking along the lines of writing the entire GUI in Perl, not really sure though since I don't have a copy of the bridge to see what is feasible :-) Oh, I see. I hadn't thought about this, your message makes more sense

Re: [Fink-devel] Perl Packages Diff usage

2002-02-19 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 03:55 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: In using Apache::ASP, I need to use Apache::Request, I think, and I think that is the cause for this error: parse_file_count check failed at T.pm line 33. -- , blib/lib/Apache/ASP.pm line 1556 FAILED before any test output

Re: [Fink-devel] shlibs (was: libpng)

2002-02-01 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 11:28 AM, Max Horn wrote: Achieving that is a quite involved task indeed, since it means you have to keep parts of a package around (like libtiff.3.dylib), enve though the rest of the package is removed, creating orphaned files that nobody owns anymore,

Re: [Fink-devel] Perl Packages Diff usage

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 01:03 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: Sorry, I went skiing this weekend, so I was unable to answer until now No problem. =) On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 11:28 , Ken Williams wrote: Hi Kyle, I have a couple of questions about this: 1) Is Apache::Request one

Re: [Fink-devel] Perl Packages Diff usage

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Williams
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 03:55 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: In using Apache::ASP, I need to use Apache::Request, I think, and I think that is the cause for this error: parse_file_count check failed at T.pm line 33. -- , blib/lib/Apache/ASP.pm line 1556 FAILED before any test output

Re: [Fink-devel] Perl Packages Diff usage

2002-01-25 Thread Ken Williams
On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 08:15 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: I am attempting to create a slew of packages for Apache::ASP and all its dependancies... Hi Kyle, I have a couple of questions about this: 1) Is Apache::Request one of the modules you've ported? AFAIK nobody else has