Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Chris Rees]

On 24 Apr 2013 05:36, "Justin Edward Muniz" <justin.muniz at maine.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.

Our kernel is actually very easy to configure, so I'm not convinced that
it's needed; you may be thinking of Linux's menuconfig, but I think that is
because of the complexity.

Chris