On 2007/06/05, at 21:13, Randall Wood wrote:
On 5 Jun 2007, at 20:53, Richard Laing wrote:
Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager. The
first beta has just been released and is available at http://
porticus.alittledrop.com. Any comments or feedback would be
greatly appreciated.
Features:
Viewing the current MacPorts categories
Installing, uninstalling, updating, activating and deactivating ports
Port variant handling
MacPorts self-update support
Growl Integration
Sparkle software updates.
It is really insulting to have a MacPorts ports manager that uses a
non-Macports means to update itself and that can not be installed
via MacPorts. If you really want to contribute to our project, you
would produce an application that is delivered via port, and that
is as open as the rest of the MacPorts project is.
... or
Wow, it's great to see more contributions and interest in MacPorts
and its community!
One note though, it'd be great if the app could be installed and
updated via MacPorts itself. If you need some help putting a
portfile together I'm sure the dev list could be of help.
Even better would be if it was, or will be, open source like the rest
of MacPorts. Granted, not all software is open source and that is
not the only valid philosophy, but it's something to keep in mind or
consider anyway.
Personally, it's great to see another GUI layer for MacPorts. I just
downloaded PortAuthority today and haven't yet had a chance to try it
out. We'll see how the competition works out. :)
Sparkle is a great new update system and Growl is always nice to see.
Thanks for the notice, I look forward to trying it out.
The beta expires on 30th June 2007.
I hope you find this useful.
Hopefully more will.
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