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mrtreibe on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Final-tarballs-tp10508p10517.html
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> 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.