Subject: Re: Summer of Code: pkgsrc "library"?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Todd Willey <xtoddx@gmail.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/06/2005 12:25:57
On 6/5/05, Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > So... what do you think about this project?  Do you think it'd be worth
> > the effort?  Or should I think about something else?
>=20
> I think there's still quite some shaking & moving in pkgsrc, looking at
> 'make update', 'make replace', pkg_chk, pkg_comp, etc. which will probabl=
y
> make things like a uniform user interface more difficult.
>=20
> As for the GUI: have a look at pkgsrc-wip/pkg_select.
>=20
>=20
>   - Hubert
>=20
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>=20

I would ask that you check out devel/libdfui for gui interactions.  It
allows any number of frontends, you only code a generic description.=20
It is used in the BSD Installer
(http://bsdinstaller.org/screenshots.html).

-todd[1]