Fink for Intel
It’s been a bit of time, but Fink for Intel has finally been released. Check it out at fink.sourceforge.net.
A new Fink release for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is available today: version 0.8.1, 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.
Fink on the Intel platform is still considered “beta” quality, and a number of packages (particularly packages in the “unstable” tree) either do not compile, or compile but do not run. Work to improve this situation is ongoing.
Fink users on PowerPC whose existing fink installation uses the 10.4-transitional tree (from the 0.8.0 distribution) may upgrade in one of two ways. The upgrade process is problematic, due to the change in ABI of g++ libraries which requires many libraries to be recompiled. Many users will simply wish to remove their fink installations and start anew with the 0.8.1 installer. Others may wish to use the new 10.4-update tarball (v. 0.3) (around 12 MB), which includes precompiled versions of the basic fink packages as well as a script which will attempt to update an existing fink installation.
