gPortupgrade, a new project with GTK2/Gnome2

[Mezz bsdforums.org]

>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.

It's very good idea, but I don't use Nautilus (prefer zsh). I only use it to 
test and report to help get it stable in FreeBSD. ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz

>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.
>
>.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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