Re: [Fink-devel] What feature would you like to see in fink/Fink?

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On Nov 23, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Jorge Acereda Maci=E1 wrote:

> David H wrote:
>> What feature would you _love_ to see in fink/Fink?
>> Why (give us a short example what it would make easier for you)
>
> I've been quite a long time away from Fink (no Mac at hand), and maybe
> these are already implemented. Here is a rough list anyway:
>
> - fink fetch <package>: download package and dependencies
> - fink extract <package>: extract downloaded package
> - fink patch <package>: apply patch phase to package
> - fink mkpatch <package>: generate a patch from an extracted (and
> posibly patched) source, just taking into account files named
> <whatever>.orig (that is, copy foo.c to foo.c.orig, then edit foo.c =20=

> and
> it should generate automagically a patch)
> - fink edit <source>: edit file with $VISUAL (or $EDITOR) generating a
> backup file <source>.orig (preserving the existing .orig file if =20
> present).
>
> You know, somewhat inspired in pkgsrc. Maybe we have things like that,
> in that case I'd love to hear from other people's tricks (or any =20
> pointer
> to any documentation).

I totally second this suggestion.  As a new maintainer, the thing =20
that I find more time consuming is having to repeat the hole process =20
just to test a small change.  It will be nice to be able to tell fink =20=

just to perform just one of the steps. (eg fink test <package> ... =20
for running the packages test)

>
>
>> How do you feel the rest of the community would benefit from your =20
>> request?
>
> Faster package development? People probably have already these scripts
> written by themselves, but for the sporadic contributor it would be a
> great help.
>
>
>
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