Re: [Fink-beginners] How to install Fink Commander

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Florian Lindner wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>I have successfully bootstrapped fink and now I want to install Fink  
>>Commander. I have not found it in the fink package database? Or is  
>>only available as a binary?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Florian
>>
>>  
> 
> Historically it was an independent project.   We bundle it into the 
> binary installers, but we don't have a package within Fink for 
> it--probably no good reason we couldn't.  On the other hand, we haven't 
> had anybody with ObjC knowledge plus enough time to maintain it.  You 
> can download it via finkcommander.sf.net

Some historical remarks: There has been a Fink package for FinkCommander 
for almost as long as FinkCommander exists. It was only never accepted 
into the main Fink distribution. For the reasons you can look at the 
archives of the fink-devel list ca April 2002, and also the discussion 
on the package submission tracker item#543612 from that time.

Basically, the Fink project leader of that time strongly hated the idea 
of Fink packages installing an app bundle, and he absolutely refused to 
let a FinkCommander package get into the Fink distribution. I thought at 
that time and still think that this was a big mistake.

I am keeping such a package in my experimental directory on the CVS 
server. It builds FinkCommander-0.5.4 with an additional patch to 
distinguish between positive and negative feedback.

-- 
Martin