Re: PKGSRCGFE=PKGSRC GRAPHICAL FRONT END

["dark0s Optik" <shiftcoder@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm quite sure that GTK+ 2.x library has got functions for all operations,
and also for operations that you want to implement.
I didn't understand that you intend with

"one can make multiple changes and then execute them at once"

because I don't know Aptitude, but we can boundle strive us to realize
a graphical user interface that it has that feature. I'd like implement a GUI
because it's easest to use, and that is important for managing large
numbers of servers
in enterprise server farm.

savio

2008/12/7  <grfgguvf@gmail.com>:
> dark0s Optik writes:
>
>> I don't know who can interest, but I want also comunicate that I'd
>> like attach my next
>> program "pkgsrcgfe" at beginning of february 2009.
>> The program will contain:
>>
>> 1) Commented code
>> 2) Modularized code
>> 3) Possibility of choice between multiple mirrors
>> 4) Save button working
>>
>> and it will have always DragonFlyBSD license.
>>
>> regards,
>> savio
>
> Hi Savio..
>
> I have created a branch of your "pkgsrcgfe" on GitHub (free git hosting
> service). I think others are interested, so it is better to use a public
> repository, instead of attachments to a newsgroup, because that way, others
> can see development in real-time and start contributing. There is a common
> advice to open-source developers which says:
>
> "Release early, release often".
>
> I did not make any changes yet, but I have been planning on writing a
> textual frontend to pkgsrc (like Aptitude in Debian), so that one can make
> multiple changes and then execute them at once, instead of waiting for the
> previous command to finish before you can install something else. And, I
> think it makes sense maybe to have one codebase for these and have options
> to build either the text or the graphical interface. Here's the URL:
>
> http://github.com/grfgguvf/pkgsrcgfe-grfgguvf/tree/master
>
> PS Please CC me if you want to be absolutely sure I catch any replies..
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