Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Justin Edward Muniz]

>
> Justin I say stick to  FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes
> more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary packages
> become more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a
> reasonable goal ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup project
> .   Also a update notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would be
> very useful .
>
> My 2cents .
> ---
> Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org
>


Thank you very much Mark,

     I was definitely hoping to get community feedback on this, and I value
you voicing your opinion. I agree that kports is a mammoth, and also that a
system updater GUI should have a way to notify the user of new updates.

     Any other perspectives are welcome, as well as support for a
freebsd-update approach. I am working to refine my proposal, which as
you've pointed out is very important. Eventually I would like to help in
all three mentioned areas, but for now I must focus on one application.
Does anyone think that a custom kernel configuration and management GUI
utility would be desirable?

     I will shape my goals to meet the needs of the community.

Justin Muniz