Re: [Fink-users] Binary packages for 10.6

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

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On 3/12/11 7:40 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 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.
> 

I forgot to mention that there is an unofficial (though not
comprehensive) binary distribution hosted by one of our package
maintainers for 10.5 and 10.6 which focuses on packages needed for
scientific work, including gcc44 and 45:

http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/fink-and-binary-distributions/

What "unofficial" means here is that the Fink Project can and will do
nothing about server outages.  Nor can or will we do anything about
misbuilt binaries other than to change the source-based build
descriptions.
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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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