Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

Hey Joshua, Sorry to get back to you late, I was with family this weekend. Anyhow, from how I understand it, the application must be started internally in-order to get the IPC setup correctly. However, I'm not terribly well versed in the internals of the IPC framework, so I can't be 100% sure abo

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

On 2015-8-8 07:35 , Kyle Sammons wrote: > MacPorts.framework still uses a privileged helper tool to do the things > that require root, right? Why couldn't it be run in this way? > > > Uhhh, no, not as far as I know. The privileged helper is needs to be > communicated with through the IPC

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

:23 , Kyle Sammons wrote: > > Hey Ian, > > > > Thanks for the offer, unfortunately, however, Pallet doesn't run any > > shell commands (everything is passed done through spinning up a Tcl > > shell and passing input/output through IPC), so I'm afraid your example > >

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

On 2015-8-6 04:14 , Kyle Sammons wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Currently I'm at a fork in the road for the Revitalizing Pallet GSoC > project, and was hoping to crowd source some ideas about how to deal > with the Apple authorization framework used to get super user privileges

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

On 2015-8-8 05:23 , Kyle Sammons wrote: > Hey Ian, > > Thanks for the offer, unfortunately, however, Pallet doesn't run any > shell commands (everything is passed done through spinning up a Tcl > shell and passing input/output through IPC), so I'm afraid you

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

e in mind? It'd most likely be more insecure due to the fact that Pallet has a constant Tcl shell running in the background, as well as it's running the entire GUI framework as root. That would be very unfortunate. I would see the GUI as a way to give users > easier access to MacPorts w

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: > I mean, most users already run the port command as root. Any security > vulnerability that can be exploited in the GUI would most probably also be > exploitable from the command line when running with 'sudo port'. Or what > kind of > vulnerab

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

e command line when running with 'sudo port'. Or what kind of vulnerability do you have in mind? > Would I have to type 'sudo pallet'? Will I be able to start the > > application from an app bundle? > > > Currently yes, unless there's a way to launch a

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

Hey Ian, Thanks for the offer, unfortunately, however, Pallet doesn't run any shell commands (everything is passed done through spinning up a Tcl shell and passing input/output through IPC), so I'm afraid your example wouldn't work. Thanks again, though! -Kyle On Wed, Aug 5,

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

be any new functionality in the graphical frontend that > could not also be exploited in 'sudo port' from the command line, right? I'm not sure what you mean by that. Would you mind rewording it? Would I have to type 'sudo pallet'? Will I be able to start the applic

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

t code, > allowing me to add more features to Pallet, and remove more bugs. > > Cons: > > 1. Still requires a certificate. Using a modern authorization framework > requires the use of a self-signed certificate, which highly complicates > the project build process

Re: Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

On 06/08/2015, at 4:14 AM, Kyle Sammons wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Currently I'm at a fork in the road for the Revitalizing Pallet GSoC > project, and was hoping to crowd source some ideas about how to deal > with the Apple authorization framework used to get super user p

Looking for opinions on authorization frameworks for Pallet

Hey everyone, Currently I'm at a fork in the road for the Revitalizing Pallet GSoC project, and was hoping to crowd source some ideas about how to deal with the Apple authorization framework used to get super user privileges to allow 'port' to execute correctly under the hood. T

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

> On Jul 22, 2015, at 3:33 PM, Kyle Sammons wrote: > > Ah, yeah, I believe I'm working in XCode 3.2 compatibility mode, so updating > that would probably be a solid idea. As for the "GCC_ENABLE_OBJC_GC", that > should be set to "unsupported", which, AFAIK, should disable all GC. I'll be > inv

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

ifferent places. This makes > them a lot easier to manage and especially easier to version control. > > It looks like there are still some instances of GCC_ENABLE_OBJC_GC in the > project settings, under the User-Defined section. Remove that and GC should > go away. You can also remo

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

On Jul 20, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Jake Petroules wrote: > 4. Don't use specific versions of OS X SDKs. Have all targets always use the > latest OS X SDK available on the build machine. To be fair, you can’t really win here: specifying “latest SDK” is a recipe for having your build break with ever

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

version control. It looks like there are still some instances of GCC_ENABLE_OBJC_GC in the project settings, under the User-Defined section. Remove that and GC should go away. You can also remove GCC_MODEL_TUNING, ZERO_LINK, PREBINDING... none of those are used anymore either. I'd send

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

> Mark E. Anderson > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Kyle Sammons > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> The progress on Pallet is now around the point where I need some other >> people to try to run it, to make sure it's building and runni

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

, and I have no clue why. 2. Pallet currently is hooked up to use BetterAuthorizationSampleLib, however the last time that was used is in 10.5. Currently that doesn't work on modern versions of OS X, so I've disabled it. And, as authorization is required for some MacPorts actions, you nee

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

he > latest OS X SDK available on the build machine. AFAIK that was done on purpose. To create binaries/app bundles compatible even with older versions. > 5. The application menu still has a bunch of document app related items > (File > >> New, etc.) that look like they probabl

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

Jul 20, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Kyle Sammons > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> The progress on Pallet is now around the point where I need some other >> people to try to run it, to make sure it's building and running correctly >> on other systems. If you're i

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

—Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Kyle Sammons wrote: > Hey everyone, > > The progress on Pallet is now around the point where I need some other > people to try to run it, to make sure it's building and running correctly > on other syst

Re: Looking for some testers for Pallet

> On Jul 20, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Kyle Sammons wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > The progress on Pallet is now around the point where I need some other people > to try to run it, to make sure it's building and running correctly on other > systems. If you're interested

Looking for some testers for Pallet

Hey everyone, The progress on Pallet is now around the point where I need some other people to try to run it, to make sure it's building and running correctly on other systems. If you're interested in doing so, I've included the details on how to build and run it below (8 t

Re: Opinions on converting Pallet to using the command line, versus Tcl bindings

.tcl > and Pallet. That would be better solved by sharing of code, perhaps in a > new front-end support library module. Yeah, there's definitely a good amount of code duplication between the two. However there's also a lot of code in there for setting up the Tcl interpreter, error han

Re: Opinions on converting Pallet to using the command line, versus Tcl bindings

On 2015-6-19 09:56 , Kyle Sammons wrote: > Hey all, > > It's reaching the point in my project where I have everything running, > save the core functionality, which hasn't been updated/modernized yet. > Currently Pallet uses Tcl bindings for Objective-C to issue comman

Opinions on converting Pallet to using the command line, versus Tcl bindings

Hey all, It's reaching the point in my project where I have everything running, save the core functionality, which hasn't been updated/modernized yet. Currently Pallet uses Tcl bindings for Objective-C to issue commands and communicate with Macports, rather than simply piping input/outp

Re: [137013] branches/gsoc15-pallet

> On Jun 2, 2015, at 1:56 PM, ksamm...@macports.org wrote: > > Revision > 137013 > Author > ksamm...@macports.org > Date > 2015-06-02 11:56:34 -0700 (Tue, 02 Jun 2015) > Log Message > > More settings > Added Paths > > • &

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

Hey Guido, Last year I tried to update my work on both Github and Trac, but that involved using git-svn and lots of hair tearing out (so many merge conflicts...). So rather than go through that nightmare again, I intend to just use Trac and then once the project is completed to push it to my perso

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:21 AM, René J.V. wrote: > Actually, MacPorts is a clone or descendant of BSD port, no? Isn't there a > BSD variant (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, ...) that already developed a GUI > interface to the CLI command that could be ported (and not necessarily to > Cocoa). It's not

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

On 02 Jun 2015 René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Actually, MacPorts is a clone or descendant of BSD port, no? > Isn't there a BSD variant (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, ...) that > already developed a GUI interface to the CLI command that could > be ported (and not necessarily to Cocoa). pkgng isn’t anymor

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

On Tuesday June 02 2015 14:34:09 Ian Wadham wrote: >Watch out for the "evolutionary" changes in Cocoa/OSX/ObjectiveC across >successive versions of OS X !!! I was particularly having problems figuring >out +++ ObjC would be a great language if it weren't so tightly coupled to an OS :-/ Which a

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

On 02 Jun 2015, at 03:56, Kyle Samamons wrote: > It'll be a lot of work, and hopefully either myself, or some other fearless > developers, will be able to keep it up and maintain it after the summer is > over. How do you plan to publish your work in progress? Are you going to use exclusively M

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

ching myself Objective C… :-) nor that I have been designing and coding for various GUI and forms designers for about 40 years now. Each one is or was unique in its own way. Maybe Pallet won't even work with newer versions of Xcode, even if you can compile it. Pallet code is quite old now.

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

I'll make sure to keep it in mind! It would be great if Pallet developed into a viable, ongoing GUI client for > the MacPorts project. My guess is that it will need a lot of work, and > ongoing maintenance from a single owner or team, to get there. >From what I can tell, you're pr

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

On 5/29/15 1:49 AM, Ian Wadham wrote: My project for this year is to get Pallet, the MacPorts GUI, up and running with the support for newest versions of OS X and XCode. After that, I intend to give it, and the Framework, some more modern-day-MacPorts features. No features are set in stone as

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

On Friday May 29 2015 15:49:59 Ian Wadham wrote: >In my opinion, a really good and complete GUI would liberate MacPorts from >its somewhat "geeky" image and make Open Source software accessible to a >much wider range of Apple Mac users (i.e. some of the people you see at the >Apple Store). Howeve

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

nd "port reclaim" commands. I had been hoping to hear from you. Unfortunately personal circumstances have delayed my reply, so I hope it is mot too late. > My project for this year is to get Pallet, the MacPorts GUI, up and running > with the support for newest versions of OS X

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

You'd have to ask rhwood for a definitive answer, but I assume because that's what shipping containers at a port are full of? :) - Josh On 2015-5-7 13:35 , David Strubbe wrote: > Why is it called Pallet? > > David > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Mark Anderson <

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

Why is it called Pallet? David On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Mark Anderson wrote: > I love it. I agree with Ryan, I think a portfile Editor/IDE should be a > separate MacPorts.framework project from Pallet. > > —Mark > ___ > Mark E. Anderson > >

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

I love it. I agree with Ryan, I think a portfile Editor/IDE should be a separate MacPorts.framework project from Pallet. —Mark ___ Mark E. Anderson On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On May 6, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Kyle Sammons wrote: > > >

Re: GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

port reclaim" commands. > > My project for this year is to get Pallet, the MacPorts GUI, up and running > with the support for newest versions of OS X and XCode. After that, I intend > to give it, and the Framework, some more modern-day-MacPorts features. No > featur

GSoC Project: Revitalizing Pallet

Hey everyone, My name's Kyle Sammons and I've been accepted into this years GSoC. I was also a GSoC participant for MacPorts last year working on Project "Clean-up Stuff", which created the "port doctor" and "port reclaim" commands. My project for this yea

Re: [73049] trunk/dports/sysutils/Pallet/Portfile

As suggested by Ryan Schmidt. > > Modified Paths: > -- >trunk/dports/sysutils/Pallet/Portfile > > Modified: trunk/dports/sysutils/Pallet/Portfile > ======= > --- trunk/dports/sysutils/Pallet/Portf

Re: [73037] trunk/dports/sysutils/Pallet/Portfile

On Nov 1, 2010, at 16:54, juan...@macports.org wrote: > Revision: 73037 > http://trac.macports.org/changeset/73037 > Author: juan...@macports.org > Date: 2010-11-01 14:54:30 -0700 (Mon, 01 Nov 2010) > Log Message: > --- > New version of Pallet. Fixes #2

New feature for Pallet

Hello, i wrote a new feature for Pallet to easily filter the Portlist for: Installed(Shows UpToDate and Outdated Ports), Outdated and Not installed Ports. More Infos and a screenshot at: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/26850 H0ff1 ___ macports

Re: [69879] branches/gsoc10-gui/Pallet/English.lproj/MainMenu.xib

Thanks! On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:22, Bill Georgitzikis wrote: > Pleased to say I have added these as well. > > tzi...@macports.org * r69987 /branches/gsoc10-gui/ (2 files in 2 dirs): > http://trac.macports.org/changeset/69987 > Added fetch and extract dependencies in the info panel _

Re: [69879] branches/gsoc10-gui/Pallet/English.lproj/MainMenu.xib

Pleased to say I have added these as well. tzi...@macports.org * r69987 /branches/gsoc10-gui/ (2 files in 2 dirs): http://trac.macports.org/changeset/69987 Added fetch and extract dependencies in the info panel On Jul 21, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:31, Bil

Re: [69879] branches/gsoc10-gui/Pallet/English.lproj/MainMenu.xib

On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:31, Bill Georgitzikis wrote: > On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jul 19, 2010, at 15:34, tzi...@macports.org wrote: >> >>> Revision: 69879 >>>http://trac.macports.org/changeset/69879 >>> Author: tzi...@macports.org >>> Date: 2010-07-19

Re: [69879] branches/gsoc10-gui/Pallet/English.lproj/MainMenu.xib

On Jul 19, 2010, at 15:34, tzi...@macports.org wrote: > Revision: 69879 > http://trac.macports.org/changeset/69879 > Author: tzi...@macports.org > Date: 2010-07-19 13:34:52 -0700 (Mon, 19 Jul 2010) > Log Message: > --- > Added build and runtime dependencies in addition to l

Re: [65503] trunk/dports/sysutils/Pallet/Portfile

On Mar 26, 2010, at 17:02, juan...@macports.org wrote: > Revision: 65503 > http://trac.macports.org/changeset/65503 > Author: juan...@macports.org > Date: 2010-03-26 15:02:09 -0700 (Fri, 26 Mar 2010) > Log Message: > --- > Update for the new Pallet appl

Re: [GSoC] MacPorts GUI (Pallet)

<2010/3/24 Ankur Sethi > Hi, > > Hi Ankur > I'm (so far) a hobbyist Cocoa programmer. I'm interested in hacking on > Pallet as a GSoC project this summer. > > I spent the morning playing with Pallet (built from > http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/m

Re: [GSoC] MacPorts GUI (Pallet)

On 2010-3-24 20:43 , Ankur Sethi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm (so far) a hobbyist Cocoa programmer. I'm interested in hacking on > Pallet as a GSoC project this summer. > > I spent the morning playing with Pallet (built from > http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macpor

Re: [GSoC] MacPorts GUI (Pallet)

tually install the port. Is this a > known bug or am I doing something wrong when I build Pallet? > - The version of Pallet in the MacPorts repository crashes on startup. I > could find a related ticket on Trac, so this looks like a known bug. > Yeah, Pallet crashing on 10.6 is a co

[GSoC] MacPorts GUI (Pallet)

Hi, I'm (so far) a hobbyist Cocoa programmer. I'm interested in hacking on Pallet as a GSoC project this summer. I spent the morning playing with Pallet (built from http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/users/rhwood/Pallet/), and I came up with a short list of ideas: - Queue

Re: [37394] branches/gsoc08-framework/Pallet

: > > On Jun 5, 2008, at 21:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Property changes on: branches/gsoc08-framework/Pallet/Halt.tiff >> ___ >> Name: svn:keywords >>+ Id > > You should definitely not se

Re: [37394] branches/gsoc08-framework/Pallet

CTED] wrote: > >> Property changes on: branches/gsoc08-framework/Pallet/Halt.tiff >> ___ >> Name: svn:keywords >>+ Id > > You should definitely not set svn:keywords on tiffs or other binary > files. > >

Re: [37394] branches/gsoc08-framework/Pallet

On Jun 5, 2008, at 21:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Property changes on: branches/gsoc08-framework/Pallet/Halt.tiff > ___ > Name: svn:keywords >+ Id You should definitely not set svn:keywords on tiffs or other bi

Re: Pallet...?

started is a mapping from the Trac browser url you provided to an actual svn repository url. svn co http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/users/rhwood/ MacPorts.Framework Or if you want both Pallet and the MacPorts.Framework, its svn co http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macpor

Re: Pallet...?

On 7 Nov 2007, at 13:34, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Randall Wood wrote: On Tuesday, November 06, 2007, at 01:36PM, "Juan Manuel Palacios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I'm tying into the MacPorts API, although if I can get significant performance impro

Re: Pallet...?

On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Randall Wood wrote: On Tuesday, November 06, 2007, at 01:36PM, "Juan Manuel Palacios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ryan! I'm not aware that Ryan has done any work on Pallet either. That said, if he wants to, he's we

Re: Pallet...?

On Nov 7, 2007, at 09:23, Randall Wood wrote: On Tuesday, November 06, 2007, at 01:36PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: Hello Ryan! I'm not aware that Ryan has done any work on Pallet either. That said, if he wants to, he's welcome to. I wasn't aware of t

Re: Pallet...?

On Tuesday, November 06, 2007, at 01:36PM, "Juan Manuel Palacios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Ryan! I'm not aware that Ryan has done any work on Pallet either. That said, if he wants to, he's welcome to. > I think this question is long ov

Pallet...?

Hello Ryan! I think this question is long overdue, and in a way I would like to apologize for apparently having ignored your seemingly interesting work on Pallet thus far! But trust me, I haven't ;-) So, mind filling us in on what you're doing with Pallet? What's

Re: Pallet

On Mar 19, 2007, at 23:27, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Randall Wood wrote: How does CFLib in the base/src directory get used? Not entirely sure what its original intent was (other than a bridging between CoreFoundation and TLC), but I do know that curren

Re: Pallet

CFLib is not used by the rest of the base system. At the time, Landon and I were planning to use it to perform bundle and plist manipulation to create .pkg bundles, and other Mac OS X-specific actions. - Kevin On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:27 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: On Mar 14, 2007, a

Re: Pallet

On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Randall Wood wrote: How does CFLib in the base/src directory get used? Not entirely sure what its original intent was (other than a bridging between CoreFoundation and TLC), but I do know that currently MacPorts does not employ the CFLib code in any way... or

Re: Pallet

On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Randall Wood wrote: You can still download it from here: Thank you. Hi Randall. Your code to parse the PortIndex has illuminated me! (There are however some memory leaks since you're not releasing enough). Two year

Re: Pallet

Randall Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is the old dp_cocoa code available anywhere? You can still download it from here: ___ macports-dev mailing list macpo

Re: Pallet

On 14 Mar 2007, at 03:55, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Randall Wood wrote: Kevin: THANKS FOR ALL THE FIXES! Everybody else: Kevin did a number of small fixes on Pallet that improved stability, speed, and maintainability. (Pallet is a GUI for MacPorts still

Re: Pallet

On Mar 13, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Randall Wood wrote: Kevin: THANKS FOR ALL THE FIXES! Everybody else: Kevin did a number of small fixes on Pallet that improved stability, speed, and maintainability. (Pallet is a GUI for MacPorts still in its infancy.) Sometimes it feels like it would be nice

Pallet

Kevin: THANKS FOR ALL THE FIXES! Everybody else: Kevin did a number of small fixes on Pallet that improved stability, speed, and maintainability. (Pallet is a GUI for MacPorts still in its infancy.) Sometimes it feels like it would be nice to know what I am doing. Randall Wood [EMAIL