gPortupgrade, a new project with GTK2/Gnome2

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Fri Mar 28 04:47:34 PST 2003


On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 07:42, Fredrick Nilsson wrote:
> sure, or maybe ports that are installed, have a slightly different icon
> (color) or something like that.

That would be nice, too.  However, I think having a consolidated view of
installed ports would make a nice addition (if you were going to do a
Nautilus view).

Joe

> 
> .f
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke [mailto:marcus at marcuscom.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 13:27
> To: Fredrick Nilsson
> Cc: 'Martin Klaffenboeck'; Mezz bsdforums.org; FreeBSD GNOME Users
> Subject: RE: gPortupgrade, a new project with GTK2/Gnome2
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 03:30, Fredrick Nilsson wrote:
> > interesting, i have some ideas of making this even more seemless
> integrated
> > in the gnome enviroment. My idea was to create a  view in nautilus, and
> when
> > entering: ports:/// in the location field, ports would be visible. when
> > browsing to, for instance, ports:///irc/ all available "application
> > directories", would be visible as packages. when right-clicking on one of
> > those, the user would have different options in the context menu. say for
> > instance, install and so on.
> > 
> > unfortunately i have very little spare time, so i haven't started yet.
> this
> > maybe would be a nice project for my vacation :)
> > 
> > anyways, i would be glad if someone could give me some feedback of this
> > idea.
> 
> I would think that a view like this would also be useful for installed
> ports.  That is, installed-ports:/// would let you look at what you
> currently have, upgrade things, or remove things.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > .f
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Klaffenboeck [mailto:martin.klaffenboeck at gmx.at]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:29
> > To: Mezz bsdforums.org
> > Cc: gnome at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: gPortupgrade, a new project with GTK2/Gnome2
> > 
> > 
> > Am 2003.03.25 23:03 schrieb(en) Mezz bsdforums.org:
> > > I recently went to Savannah and noticed a new project called
> > > gPortupgrade, 
> > > it sounds like it's going to be cool project. Hope, it will go well.
> > > :-)
> > > 
> > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gportupgrade/
> > > 
> > > There's no download and more info in page, yet. It just submitted as a
> > > new 
> > > project, yesterday.
> > 
> > See also:  http://gports.sourceforge.net
> > 
> > It seems to be a similar project but it does not use Portupgrade,
> > instead it tryes to create a library for the ports.  Yes, of corse, it
> > is a project from myself, to learn c programming and learn more about
> > the freebsd ports structure.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
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