From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim McNamara Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1 Date: 21 Nov 2003 12:33:30 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1N2vb.57354$Dw6.319479@attbi_s02> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069441568 17006 80.91.224.253 (21 Nov 2003 19:06:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:06:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 20:06:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ANGbV-0007wT-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:06:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ANHW1-0004Qs-33 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:04:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!gemini.bitstream.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74fb922d.news.bitstream.net Original-X-Trace: 1069439632 gemini.bitstream.net 1097 216.243.177.155 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@bitstream.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118546 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14488 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14488 westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu (Stephen H. Westin) writes: > I still haven't figured out the point to Fink. I just downloaded the > source and followed the instructions to build Emacs. fink is handholding for Mac users who have never compiled software in their lives, which is most of us. fink will download the source, check dependencies, automagically configure and build the application and install it. It also does so in a special directory tree, /sw, so that it can be deleted with a drag to the trash and does no modifications to the / directory. fink also allows the use of dselect and apt as alternatives for obtaining prebuilt binaries, again managing dependencies which is unfamiliar territory for Mac users (Mac applications used to never share libraries, for example; less true after OS 7 and now hardly true at all). Basically, fink allows Mac users access to Unix and X11 apps with only a slight toe-wetting into the full Unix experience.