Fink 0.6.0 was released yesterday and is compatible with Panther. This is a source-only release; binaries will follow in a few days. Changes include: 10.2 with gcc 3.1 is officially no longer supported. 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3 are officially supported now, even though not all packages are in the 10.3 or 10.2-gcc3.3 tree yet. The mirror code has been updated to support the mirrors finkmirrors.net will introduce. Additionally, Fink now has a new logo.
Fink 0.6.0 Released
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I have never understood what Fink is, can someone explain … thanks
it is a package manager for os x. if you are familiar with debian or gentoo, it is like their system. in fact, it uses apt-get (debian).
oh, and the packages are all (at least to my knowledge) unix/linux packages that have been ported. its pretty cool to be able to use the gimp and not have to spring for photoshop.
Thank god for rootless X11 🙂
I have never understood what Fink is, can someone explain … thanks
Read The Friendly Manual, it’s here:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/about.php
wow, i’m glad they had this finished so quickly!
=)
i know a lot of people that will be moving to os 10.3 now, fink is what was holding them (and me) back
Think of it as a “distribution” for Mac OS X, but with the base system implied. =)
Be warned that while fink 0.6.0 works great on panther with a fresh fink install, we’ve run into a few odd upgrade issues that are probably deep in Fink’s dependency code. For now we support 10.2 + gcc3.3 officially, but consider the Panther upgrade “beta”.
I know that with fink you can both compile from source or download binaries, can I compile 970 optimized binaries with this version of Fink? Anyone know?
AFAIK, the compile flags for all fink packages are the same regardless of the platform you’re compiling under. So no, I don’t think you’ll be able to manually tweak the makefiles to set your own custom optimization flags.
There have been attempts to manually override CFLAGS, but with no success. Search the fink-users mailing list for more information. But IIRC, the reason you can’t change the make flags is because the package maintainers supposed know best which flags to use, and they don’t want you passing weird compiler flags that break the compilation. If you think the flags should be changed, I remember being told to contact the package maintainers themselves.
You’ll find Fink here:
[url= http://fink.sourceforge.net/ ] Fink [/url]
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
Cheers Daniel