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

2002-03-05 Thread Max Horn
At 13:39 Uhr + 05.03.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On the other hand, won't any future Fink GUI have to incorporate some >> IPC to interact with apt-get and install the binary distribution? So >> wouldn't it make sense to go ahead with whatever can be done now? (He >> asked hopefull

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

2002-03-05 Thread finlay . dobbie
> On the other hand, won't any future Fink GUI have to incorporate some > IPC to interact with apt-get and install the binary distribution? So > wouldn't it make sense to go ahead with whatever can be done now? (He > asked hopefully.) Since apt-get and dpkg are written in C, I think we can

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

2002-03-05 Thread Steven Burr
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 02:53 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 09:50 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > >> 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'

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

2002-03-04 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 09:50 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > 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,

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] 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 Max Horn
At 13:15 Uhr -0600 04.03.2002, Ken Williams wrote: >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 Fi

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

2002-03-04 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > 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 communicat

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 shel

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

2002-03-04 Thread Justin Hallett
I agree here and have been waiting as well, and learning Obj-C of course :P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >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.

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

2002-03-04 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Will look into it a bit more though, may be a good place to start, or > continue with Finlay's code, or whatever. 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 c

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

2002-03-04 Thread Peter O'Gorman
This doesn't give me an error, but doesn't actually do anything either, just hangs... Building List of fink packages... Will look into it a bit more though, may be a good place to start, or continue with Finlay's code, or whatever. Thanks, Peter On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 12:33 AM, Steven

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

2002-03-04 Thread Steven Burr
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 06:53 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > From a short test, it is clear that Steven's project goes far beyond > what Finlay put into CVS (and looking at CVS, there doesn't seem to have > been much progress for the last 8 months). It looks like a very good and > useful util

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

2002-03-04 Thread Steven Burr
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 04:22 AM, Ben Hines wrote: > At 11:15 PM -0700 3/3/02, Steven Burr wrote: >> I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. . . . > Is this related to the work in progress Fink GUI that is in CVS? Or is > there lots of wheel reinventing going on? It's not relat

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

2002-03-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: > > At 11:15 PM -0700 3/3/02, Steven Burr wrote: > >I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. Much to my own > >surprise, what I've done so far actually works pretty well. In the > >hope that it might prove useful to the Fink project, I've made the > >Project Builder fil

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

2002-03-04 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:15 PM -0700 3/3/02, Steven Burr wrote: >I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. Much to my own >surprise, what I've done so far actually works pretty well. In the >hope that it might prove useful to the Fink project, I've made the >Project Builder files available for download a

[Fink-devel] GUI for Fink Available for Download

2002-03-03 Thread Steven Burr
I've been working on a Cocoa front end for Fink. Much to my own surprise, what I've done so far actually works pretty well. In the hope that it might prove useful to the Fink project, I've made the Project Builder files available for download at: http://homepage.mac.com/sburr/FileSharing2.ht