Phynchronicity: Fink GUI

MacPorts has less packages, too, since it doesn’t like including GPL stuff (or at least I think so; most Fink packages that aren’t on MacPorts are GPL'd).

@Rob

Fink is still very active, but I think gets a bad rap because most people's first impressions is with binary package installs which is (admittedly) out of date, and with "stable" which is also very out of date. Fink unstable (which is the equivalent of MacPorts) is pretty actively maintained and up-todate.

We are (slowly) getting the infrastructure set up to do automated bindist builds, which should alleviate some of those first-impression issues. :)

@Jon #4,
Fink is under a lot of development as it is. The core application is not developed extensively, but the packages are maintained fairly well.
I would also like to let all of the FinkCommander people know that I am currently in the process of re-writing FinkCommander (it needs it, trust me) in PyObjC, but I don't expect to have a release anytime soon.

I would also like to know the answer to this question. Which is better fink or MacPorts?

It seems that MacPorts is more up-to-date.

What are the pros and cons of fink vs. MacPorts?

I tried out their MacPorts gui, PortAuthority, a while back and I was fairly unimpressed. It added an unnecessary level of complexity to an otherwise simple command-line utility, I thought. So if this product is anything like it, I'd skip it.

On another note, I'm just surprised anyone still uses fink...the project looked fairly dead to me last time I checked it out, so I switched over to macports because the community seemed more active. Anyone using fink that can verify this?

Overpriced crap methinks. I can just type "fink install nessus" and it does the same job.

20$??? For what? FinkCommander is free, is Phynchronicity really better?

FinkCommander is free and does the same job.