Fink

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Tue Mar 4 21:03:34 UTC 2003


Could the "Relief" project that Craig Latta is heading up, could be used
for this?

-----Original Message-----
From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:merlyn at stonehenge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:55 PM
To: Ralph Johnson
Cc: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: Fink


>>>>> "Ralph" == Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu> writes:

Ralph> Fink is a project to port Unix software to MacOS X, and a tool
Ralph> that lets MacOS X users download binaries.  Fink has a large
Ralph> collection of languages, but Smalltalk is not one of them.
Ralph> That makes sense in a way, since Squeak doesn't have to be
Ralph> ported to the Mac from Unix, but a lot of people don't care
Ralph> where software comes from, they just want to download it by
Ralph> going to a main repository and clicking.  Someone should get
Ralph> Squeak into Fink.  That would lead to a lot more people trying
Ralph> it.

fink wants to build things from sources.  Is there a .tar.gz that can
be downloaded, "make"-ed and then from which Squeak magically appears?
Fink doesn't want binary releases of things.

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