From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 19 00:49:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA23538 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:49:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA23533 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:49:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id TAA28502 for ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:19:20 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611190849.TAA28502@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: INDEX browser To: ports@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:19:19 +1030 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ok all your ports-lunatics out there, here's a toy to play with : ftp://gsoft.com.au/pub/pib.tcl.gz (requires Tcl and Tk, but pretty version-immune AFAICT) At the moment the fonts aren't so great, and the root window resizing is ugly. I also plan to make it sort the contents of the listboxes. Please excuse the "oh yes very Tcl-looking"-ness; I've avoided using any of the extensions so that it's as generic as possible. Beyond that though, what would people like? Searching ability? Better xref checking? (Conceivably it could check all of the build/run dependancies in the INDEX all at once). Point-and-shoot port build/install? Stale-distfile extermination? Distfile verification? Recursive dependancy graphing? What would be an acceptable requirement for it? At the moment it needs Tcl and Tk; it would be nice to add TclX and Tix to that, but then I can see people perhaps not using it because it requires too much to be installed... Ideas, please? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[