Re: [Quantlib-dev] introducing Mark Treiber

[Mark T. <mrt...@en...>]

>
> ouch! Mark, I beg your pardon: I've subscribed you without 
> introduction. Sorry.

Quite all right.

>
> Well... please join me in welcoming Mark Treiber: he will provide fink 
> packages (http://fink.sourceforge.net/) for QuantLib. Thank you Mark.
>
Since there's a bit of confusion about how fink works I've pasted the 
reply to a question from Luigi below:

> based on some kind of package-definition file? If so, we can put it in 
> the repository so that
> a) running configure inserts the right version number automatically 
> and b) it gets included in the distribution tarball, so that it is 
> ready for you to use. (I already do the same for the RPM definition 
> file.)

Well the package-definition file really is the fink package itself.  
The power with fink is that it not only handles the compilation and 
creation of .debs, it also handles downloading, verifying md5 
checksums, patching and configuring.  The .debs in fink are really only 
meant to manage files locally instead of for distribution.  It many 
ways it more like gentoo than debian.  Except that its more like debian 
when it comes to handling the different packages.  Just like debian has 
stable and unstable trees, fink has the same trees (there are also 
separate trees for 10.3 and 10.2, unfortunately I can't test the 
package for the 10.2 tree) and instead of storing .debs in the trees, 
the fink .info files are stored in the trees.

I've update the .info file that I'm using for QuantLib right now but I 
have to wait until its finally released so that the url and md5 of the 
file at sourceforge match what I have listed.

Mark.