[Ilgaz]

Hello,

I have access to various powerpc macs including the fastest ever built (g5 quad) and experienced in using open source package managers such as fink (finkproject.org).

What I wonder is, is the dropping powerpc support due to gigantic application size or lack of access to powerpc macs? In that case, perhaps a great co-incidence, fink project (think like debian on os x) has everything calibre needs including epub libraries.

So, I wonder if it would be a nice idea to convince a Fink package manager to make a "calibre" package in their "unstable" tree so Calibre can be used/tested by many people including some who would contribute to the project?

While very unlikely (I know the qt developers style), unless there is a specific CPU issue, e.g. non portable x86 code, I am thinking it will be a great use of fink and open source.

For example, while they don't even support OS X 10.5.8 and PowerPC , I am typing this from Firefox 4 beta 8 running on OS X Tiger 10.4.11/PPC, compiled via Fink.

Of course one can always compile any open source project manually but on OS X (as you guess) things are way more complex than Linux or even Windows as OS X itself comes with its own open source (generally older,stable) version of libraries. Projects like fink/macports makes even newbie OS X users safely compile from source and easily manage/update them.

To give an idea how mature/advanced Fink project is, you can actually have full KDE 4 (which is qt 4 based) up and running on OS X, 3 different major versions supported.