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Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1
From: |
Stephen H. Westin |
Subject: |
Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1 |
Date: |
21 Nov 2003 13:58:50 -0500 |
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Hugh Wolf <hwolf@deutsches.lieder.de> writes:
> On 2003-11-21, Stephen H. Westin <westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu> wrote:
> > I still haven't figured out the point to Fink.
>
> The main reason is version control and dependency management. It's
> just like using dselect etc in Debian or rpm in Redhat. It makes no
> sense at all to build straight from tars imo if you have a good
> software package manager available.
>
> An important secondary reason in because lots of unix packages need
> minor adjustments to build and/or run in osx, and the kind volunteers
> at fink have already created the .patch files for the rest of us to
> use.
>
> Thirdly, in many cases prebuilt fink binary packages are available
> for download. Why build it yourself if it's already been done for
> you in a sensible way?
>
>
> All in all, why would you _not_ want to use fink?
Because it puts everything in a strange place where it isn't found by
most normal open-source software builds.
> What advantages
> are you gaining by building everything manually yourself? I can't
> think of any.
Well, I was exposed to Fink in trying to port code from Linux. When I
went to build, say, libgphoto2, everything was broken, using the wrong
version of utilities, etc.
There are plenty of open-source projects, including Emacs, that have
integrated the Mac port into the main source tree and build procedure.
--
-Stephen H. Westin
Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not
represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors.
- emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, Chris Swoyer, 2003/11/19
- Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, Hugh Wolf, 2003/11/19
- Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, Tim McNamara, 2003/11/19
- Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, Hugh Wolf, 2003/11/20
- Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, Hugh Wolf, 2003/11/21
- Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1,
Stephen H. Westin <=
- Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/11/21
- Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, Tim McNamara, 2003/11/21
Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1, leo, 2003/11/19