[Ifeffit] Re: [athena, artemis,Ifeffit, etc.] OS X installer?

[Paul Fons]

I think they are in principle very similar.  The idea of using fink is 
that I can leverage off the packages that are already in fink, namely 
perlTk, readline, libpng, python, and so on.  This would make a binary 
install via fink possible in the future.  Right now, I have a 
non-standard system that includes my own perlTk (from source) and perl 
5.8.0 (manually installed) so I need to clean up a new partition for a 
test.  I am still interested in your experiences.

										Paul






On 2003.Jul.24, at 12:39  AM, Carlo U. Segre wrote:

>
> As I understand it, fink is very similar to the Debian packaging 
> system.
> Perhaps the Debian sources that i have made and will continue to 
> support
> will help speed up the process.
>
> Carlo
>
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Paul Fons wrote:
>
>> I am also thinking of making an OS X binary installer (for those who
>> don't want to deal with fink etc.).  The installer would be for
>> installation on a generic Mac OS 10.2.x system and would include
>> ifeffit, athena, artemis, tkatoms, and the necessary libraries.  All 
>> of
>> this would be in effect, just copying over the necessary binaries with
>> only a minimal check for safety.  The other option is fink which would
>> allow the use of potentially binary installations and/or compilation.
>> The compilation step would require people to install the (free) C
>> compiler from Apple.  Any one else interested in using or helping with
>> such a project?
>>
>>
>
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