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Date:      Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:54:29 +0300
From:      Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To:        Justin Edward Muniz <justin.muniz@maine.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=C3=ADa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Justin Edward Muniz
<justin.muniz@maine.edu> wrote:
>>
>> It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection.
>> There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It
>> might be worth a look at those first.
>>
>> [1] ports-mgmt/kports
>> [2] ports-mgmt/kports-qt4
>>
>>      Yes, I just found those GUI programs myself. No sense reinventing the
> wheel;
> I will check out the functionality and make sure I don't overlap. I am most
> interested
> in a GUI front-end for updating binary updates to the base system. Thank
> you for taking
> your time to help! I will keep researching current GUI projects and make
> sure this is
> worthwhile.
>
>      Everyone has given me much to work with, I appreciate it all.
>
> Justin Muniz
>

Could you also take a look at how security/pinentry-* ports offer
multiple ways to implement a GUI for a simple service, it offers a
curses, QT and GTK frontends to pinentry.

-Kimmo



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