Day 1 Blog

Finally my exams and practicals are finally over and I am starting with the coding work offically.
I am very much thankful to my mentors for giving me time till my exams and practicals were over.

My script can be found on Github here

Starting point of my script
To start with I choosed a open source available script which helps install fink with all its dependencies. Which can be found here. Then I had modified it to install the other dependencies for Scilab too.
But this is not as easy as it seems.

Problems faced

• The script installs fink again even if its already pre-installed
• Some of the mentioned dependencies for Mac OS are missing/outdated from fink package directory.
  A table of these packages with their replacement is as follows:

  S.no	Package specified	Alternative / Newever version
  1	hdf5.8	hdf5.9-oldapi
  2	hdf5.8-shlibs	hdf5.9-oldapi-shlibs
  3	gettext-bin-0.19.3-1	gettext-bin-0.19.8.1-2
  4	gettext-tools-0.19.3-1	gettext-tools-0.19.8.1-2
  5	arpack-ng-3.1.5-3	arpack-ng-3.4.0-1
  6	pkgconfig-0.28-1	pkgconfig-0.28-2
  7	libcurl4-7.42.0-1+10.8	libcurl4-7.57.0-1
  8	libmatio2-1.5.2-2	libmatio2-1.5.3-1

I have asked my mentors and everyone on mailing list, if there are any issues if I replace the old versions with new ones,
Also the reinstallation of fink is yet to be fixed.
Hoping for Best.
Happily Coding
Divyanshu Kumar