Re: [Chicken-users] Fink package for chicken

[Ivan Raikov]

  Sounds good to me. While at it, why not remove the link "Debian
packages" from the wiki front page, and create a link "Platforms &
binary packages" that points to the platforms page. That way hopefully
the package information will be accessible from the front page.

   -Ivan

Sebastián González <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Ivan, thanks for the pointer. Knowing about it would have spared
> me some time; since no package was available on Fink's database, I
> didn't even think of trying to find it elsewhere (duh).
>
> What if instead of editing:
>
> http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br:8080//Fink%20packages
>
> which is not really needed anymore, we edit section "Fink" in:
>
> http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br:8080//platforms#Mac%20OS%20X
>
> so that it resembles the description of MacPorts, something like:
>
> "
> Fink users can type the following command in a Terminal:
>
> fink install chicken
>
> This will download, compile and install the latest Chicken version.
> "
>
> As a side remark, I would propose to delete all those platforms for
> which no package is available yet (SUSE, CentOS, Mac Binary, etc.).
> There is no point in having such void entries.  They can all be
> substituted by a kind of call for volunteers, "Contribution of
> packages for BSD, CentOS, ... is sought and will be greatly
> appreciated." - or something of the sort.
>
> - Sebastián