Re: [Chicken-users] Fink package for chicken

[Sebastián González]

On 21 Aug 2007, at 12:47, Peter Bex wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:44:35AM +0200, Sebasti?n Gonz?lez wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Chicken is also available on all those platforms through pkgsrc, the
> cross-platform packaging system that's used as the native system by
> NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD.
>
> How should this be added to the list?  It's not really correct to
> put it under 'BSD', since pkgsrc also works on Solaris, Linux,  
> FreeBSD,
> MacOS X and I think even under Windows with Cygwin or Interix (Windows
> Services for Unix).


If pkgsrc is native to those two BSDs, I would suggest creating two  
explicit entries for them.  An additional section "Other platforms"  
can be created where the possibility of using pkgsrc is mentioned.


> Regards,
> Peter
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