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't have a

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 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 hopefully.)

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 at:

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 files

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 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 communicating

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