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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:47:11AM +0200, Javier Arantegui wrote:
> El Viernes, 17 de Octubre de 2008, Martin Costabel escribió:
> > For the Fink package, I will not follow this route, because I still
> > believe in the idea of shared libraries (and, having had enough contact
> > with Americans, I have a bad conscience distributing GPL-ed binary libs
> > without being able to offer the corresponding sources).

I share Martin's point of view: I do think it to be useful to have a TeXmacs
distribution which takes about ten times less space in Fink than it would
take in an application bundle.

> I can understand and share your point of view. But I think that having a 
> bundle version of TeXmacs for Mac OS X will attract new users that are not 
> interested in running Fink. Maybe all the code, TeXmacs and dependencies, 
> could be pack together and be available for download, in case somebody 
> would 
> be interested. I think that this could be a conscience relief for you.

But I also agree with Javier: for some users, downloading an application 
bundle
is just much easier ; especially for users who do not intend to use their Mac
for running any other software from the Linux/Unix world.

However, our 'make BUNDLE' facility is only at an experimental stage.
It did work on the laptop of at least one other person,
but we still have to do work in order to distribute bundles officially.

Best wishes, Joris