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 Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSfnSNDBmthfEZ64S_WpCv%2BQe8F-N%2Bwat6WZw2meObrZNA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BnOTRh1KEoisHSQpG8%2B2k7vQ6iagOhzNU%2BztAE-8crs3-JsRA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BnOTRj%2Be%2BHqZiqFSWdYVXYZ1fENsgAatEqt-P5%2Bbr9n=JtNKw@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo839=KjBDERcRcDcJK38Z_w2tj97M0Y8kz%2BV2pXyt9P1MiA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BnOTRhWuDg2PvRght=gGCt9uc3vP5SfDaHxKSTgwE5MKaSWXw@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgncxx4JvJf%2BOCymXWs4SF6r9VG_xKjcAZHO5970NK7wgQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BnOTRizd%2BEjra2-TfjTu9YSBkbuy0wefh7o8gcWv0Cv1TZkyQ@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B7WWSd3vYT2KAf1CefNjUxoxu7SXZL%2BzRQR69aztQPdT=znhg@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgk_CrbzNxO67fGcCR7dZ9m07LomYFQqd9vzwwYM-ZO2iA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2B7WWSe0YBi=VuVVighbCHyEoxXBJ%2B%2B-CJE8G%2BtLMckh97TuaQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAGwOe2bp2OOj57GWEqtiBogueuWWmTgRY_Up-ETNgjJfr1QSTg@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BnOTRh1KEoisHSQpG8%2B2k7vQ6iagOhzNU%2BztAE-8crs3-JsRA@mail.gmail.com>
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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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