[Fink-users] In Defense of Fink

2002-12-17 Thread Daniel Lord
e behind the wheel of anything else. Fink Project team, thank you. Daniel Lord -- daniellordATtelocityDOTcom GPG Fingerprint: C59E 59F5 1C63 5CFB 6161 067E FF00 A4E8 684A 16BB "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked

Re: [Fink-users] 0.5.0a installation issues

2002-12-11 Thread Daniel Lord
It appears, judging from the error message, that your syntax in the .cshrc is not correct but I cannot be sure because I haven't seen it. The lines from my .tcshrc are: if ( -f "/sw/bin/init.csh" ) then source /sw/bin/init.csh endif Perhaps those might work for you. -Daniel -- daniello

[Fink-users] New Release: Thanks very much for yet another improvement of an awesome tool

2002-12-09 Thread Daniel Lord
It is more than the Source Forge Product of the Month: for I cannot describe in one message the vastness of body of software fink opens to the OS X user. In sum, it makes the Mac simply the most versatile, powerful desktop Unix on the market, bar none. Thank you. -

Re: [Fink-users] Letter to Apple

2002-11-30 Thread Daniel Lord
Can you provide a little more detail? A. S. Hodel, Assoc. Prof, Dept. Elect & Comp Eng, Auburn University, AL 36849-5201 (334) 844-1854 200 Broun Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte Unfortunate name space collision. What I meant was X libraries that call Aqua similarly

Re: [Fink-users] Letter to Apple

2002-11-30 Thread Daniel Lord
On Saturday, Nov 30, 2002, at 03:27 US/Pacific, Brendan Lane Larson wrote: Sure, one could ask Apple for some more specific support. I would feel a little silly doing that without some proposal from the Fink community on the table. If there were one well-defined idea to rally behind, then tha

[Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] More on ..GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-29 Thread Daniel Lord
All, What about an opt-in scheme where everything is signed, but users who don't care can install it without verification. Sort of like the MD5 scheme some projects use--you verify the integrity of the software if you worry about such things and ignore the signature if you don't. Developers wou

Re: [Fink-users] CVS Access broken?

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Lord
script called postinstall.pl.in which is that directory On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:01, Daniel Lord wrote: Interesting, I have the same problem and running "fink selfupdate-cvs" doesn't fix it. I discovered the problem when Jeff updated PerlMagick and I tried to re-install--the update sai

Re: [Fink-users] CVS Access broken?

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Lord
till broken which I verified. Jeff confirms he updated the perlmagick-pm package. So my fink 10.2.1 install didn't work properly By chance are you running Perl 5.8--I am. I wonder if that is the root of all evil here... Daniel Lord On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002, at 05:42 US/Pacific, Alexan

[Fink-users] CC of message to PerlMagick Maintainer as an FYI

2002-11-13 Thread Daniel Lord
file "ImageMagick-5.4.5.tar.gz" failed. Daniel Lord -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "My dancing, drinking, and singing weave me the mat GPG Fingerprint: 160A B2C5 DB19 7F67 1BCC 3C24 C6E1 1DBE DF46 36A7 upo

Re: [Fink-users] perl 5.8 ?

2002-11-03 Thread Daniel Lord
circumspect about non-fink Perl modules as a result of a few frustrating experiences. I am keeping at it and will post anything important I discover. Good luck. Daniel Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday, Nov 3, 2002, at 05:48 US/Pacific, Koen van der Drift wrote: Is it Ok to run fink with perl

[Fink-users] Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

2002-11-02 Thread Daniel Lord
S X, the number one desktop Unix on the planet. Congratulations to all of you who work so hard to make it work so well. Daniel Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GPG Fingerprint: 160A B2C5 DB19 7F67 1BCC 3C24 C6E1 1DBE DF46 36A7 "My dan