GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Teske, Devin]

On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 02:03:56PM -0400, Justin Edward Muniz wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think the interface to pkgng and freebsd-update are still
>>> interesting; at least more worthwhile than the kernel configuration
>>> one.
>>> 
>>> I think the pkgng one has the edge, since packages are updated far
>>> more often than base, and it's easier to track base.
>>> 
>>> Now you are at a stage where you should make your own decision; which
>>> one looks the most interesting to you?  Once you decide on an area of
>>> interest, you can just start hacking :)
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> That's good to hear.
>> 
>> I am sure that you are right, a pkgng GUI would probably see more use in
>> general. I am definitely close to making my decision, but this thread has
>> been so much help, I am glad for the insight.
>> 
>> The coding is what I look forward to the most :D
> 
> imho a pkgng frontend should be done via packagekit, just write a pkgng backend
> for packagekit and you will gain for FreeBSD a KDE frontend and a GTK frontend.
> 
> That said any frontend at convenience to contributor will be anyway good :)
> 

If you could pardon my ignorance… but what is packagekit again (for the benefit of others)?
-- 
Devin

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