From: Alexander H. <ale...@gm...> - 2011-03-15 16:08:05
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/15/11 7:12 AM, Ian Hinder wrote: > > On 12 Mar 2011, at 13:40, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 > >> On 3/12/11 5:06 AM, Ian Hinder wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Firstly, apologies if this question has been asked many times before. I had no luck searching the FAQ, the documentation, or Google. >>> >>> It would be very nice to have binary packages in fink available for Mac OS 10.6 I would have thought that this was a common request, as the amount of time spent compiling is quite high, especially for large packages such as gcc. Is there a plan in place to make this happen? What would be required? Is it a problem of someone dedicating a build server to this task? Is the userbase of fink too small to justify the effort? >>> > >> The developer base is small. > >> Historically binary distributions have been generated on someone's >> personal machines (taking a couple of weeks for a given architecture) >> and then uploaded to sourceforge. There are no dedicated build machines. > > > Are the builds done fresh each time, or only updated when packages change? In which case the two weeks would just be the initial build, and it should be only incremental after that. I think they were done fresh each time. Historically there were binary releases every half-year or so, but that went to one per OS version. The binary distributions aren't built and hosted on the same machine, so the additional step of uploading them from where they're built is required. > > Is there a plan in place to improve this for 10.6? It would be really useful to have an official set of binaries for the current Mac OS, along with a binary installer. If we add a simple gui, this could be like an "app-store" for free software :) > There's no plan as such to put out official binaries for 10.6. The person who normally handled the binary releases is quite busy with stuff that actually pays the bills. > What do you think it would take to get the binary distribution up and running? > Someone's time and machines. Also, the details of how the scripts work that are needed to run the binary installer seem to change with every OS X release, so that would need to be reworked and tested, too. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1/jtkACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+BoACfUs65GgiE/ufEc6A/8gndB+qt spcAmQEeCUiriyY3tzXq8jmbFRUprLew =J233 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |