<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Ryan Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" target="_blank">ryandesign@macports.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":7y" class="">Fink was written in 2000 shortly after the release of Mac OS X Public Beta. MacPorts was started in 2002. Why didn't its creators instead contribute to Fink? I don't know; I wasn't part of the project back then. A note on the Fink web site says the MacPorts creators wanted to try a different approach; it's written in Tcl and C and based conceptually on FreeBSD's ports system, though it doesn't share any of its code. Wanting to try a different approach is probably also what led to Homebrew being created in 2009; it's written in Ruby. Today, each of the three projects have a rich history of finding different ways of solving problems. It may be that multiple solutions are valid, or that some solutions work better than others. But the point is they are different solutions, and they do not interoperate with one another. I cannot take a MacPorts portfile written in Tcl and convert it into a format that can be understood by Fink or Homebrew.<br></div></blockquote></div><br>I read emerying carefully. Very informative. But you missing a point. I'm not talking why it is not possible. Do you think all Linux distoros more compatible between each other than Mac with three build system's? They all have problem you mention, including absolute path linking (they are using same liking tools) and more! But they all understand they need to be together and they find the way. I'm taking about understanding of looking in the same direction.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Going the way "why it is not possible" two of three systems end'up dead. Or you see another future?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- AK</div></div>
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