From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu (Stephen H. Westin) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs for Mac OS 10.3.1 Date: 21 Nov 2003 13:58:50 -0500 Organization: Cornell University 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 1069442415 19075 80.91.224.253 (21 Nov 2003 19:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 19:20:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 20:20:10 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 1ANGp8-0000Pb-00 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:20:10 +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 1ANHhD-00082s-1C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:16:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!artemis.acsu.buffalo.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ralph.graphics.cornell.edu Original-X-Trace: news01.cit.cornell.edu 1069441136 530 128.84.247.95 (21 Nov 2003 18:58:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news01.cit.cornell.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Nov 2003 18:58:56 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118548 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:14490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14490 Hugh Wolf writes: > On 2003-11-21, Stephen H. Westin 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.