GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Fernando Apesteguía]

El 24/04/2013 21:18, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> escribió:
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>
> 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)?

It's an application to manage packages. It is developed in a way that it's
easy to add new backends keeping the same interface. See[1] for the general
information and this[2] page for the currently supported back ends.

[1] http://www.packagekit.org

[2] http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html

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> Devin
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