Gentoo, Fink, and DarwinPorts Join Forces

Mr. Quick writes "From Metapkg, "In order to better provide freely-available software to users of Mac OS X and Darwin, we Fink, Gentoo, and DarwinPorts commit ourselves to work together." A unified front for free software on Mac OS X is something that was needed."

Comments

Aren't they forgetting someone?

[idiotnot]

NetBSD's pkgsrc works very well for me on OSX. I haven't tried portage or darwin ports, but fink seemed a little strange....almost but not quite debian goodness.

Still, I think all this work is kind of weird. I can see the porting effort for things like the text-based things (emacs!) and the very large projects (OO.o!)....but running standard unix apps under X on top of OSX doesn't take advantage of OSX's strong points. For all the hype, this could be happening with people on cygwin....

Kudos to the GNUMail.app people, of showing what can be done.

Re:What about Apple?

[Halo1]

Apple is more or less part of the darwinports project (Jordan K Hubbard is one of its project leads)

FYI: GPL QT/Mac soon (if not already) available

[harikiri]

This means that many of your favourite KDE-related apps may soon be compiling natively under OS X.

Go here for more info. Droooooooooooooool. ;-)