Fwd: GSOC: Qt front-ends

[Baptiste Daroussin]

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 :)

regards,
Bapt
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