News
2008-07-23: End of 10.3 support.
The Fink project is no longer able to offer support for users of Fink
on Mac OS X 10.3. In reality there has been very little support for
some time, so this announcement simply formalizes that fact.
This means that there will not be any further updates, not even
security updates, for Mac OS X 10.3 users. Their existing
installations will continue to work, but the software that is
installed will not be updated.
We believe that the majority of our users are using Mac OS X 10.4 or
10.5 and hope that this does not inconvenience too many people.
2008-07-17: Mass package migration.
The massive GNOME update which has been in process for
many months was merged into fink's unstable tree. This is well
tested, and updates by users appear to be going fairly smoothly.
We are now merging the gnome update into the stable tree. Because
we have been unable to test the dependencies of these new packages in
the stable tree in advance, users can expect the "stable" tree to be
"not so stable" during the next few weeks, while the bugs get worked
out.
If you are eager to start using this massive gnome update immediately,
we suggest that you switch to the unstable tree. If not, we suggest
that you hold off running "fink selfupdate" for a while (perhaps a
week or two) until things have again stabilized.
2008-06-26: New Fink release.
A new (binary) Fink release for OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is
available
today: version 0.9.0, which can be installed on either Intel or PowerPC
hardware.
The release includes source files, binary packages, and Fink
installers for both kinds of hardware.
Users who have already installed Fink on Leopard from source, who now wish
to switch to the binary distribution, may do so as follows. First,
run fink selfupdate to update to the latest version of the
fink package manager. Next, run fink configure, and be sure
to change your choice about using the binary distribution from No
to yes. Finally, run fink scanpackages to activate the binary
distribution.
Update, 2008-07-11: If you use the binary installer, you
should run fink selfupdate after installation.
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