OSNews: Interview with Fink’s Project Leader Max Horn

“Today, we host a mini-interview with Fink’s project leader, Max
Horn. The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open
Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. They modify Unix software
so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and make it available for
download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like
dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management and
you can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary
packages or build everything from source.

“1. Has the Fink project considered adding the
FinkCommander as part of the whole project, for easier usage by the
Mac OS X users?

“Max Horn: For the upcoming Fink release, 0.5.2, we
plan to include FinkCommander as part of the binary installer disk
image. We also want to mention it in some more spots of our docs.
However, it still is and probably always will be, a separate
product. We work together with its author whenever needed, but
there are no plans to make it part of the Fink project
itself…”

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