On Jul 10, 2009, at 19:55, George Armah wrote:
I was hoping Juan would have replied by now.
Oh, he replied to me directly (copied at bottom). Thanks for replying
to me as well. This looks like a great project, and I look forward to
seeing it mature =)
1) Do you plan to support categories? Ports list categories that
they
belong to, so it would be nice to have a browsing option that
allows us to
"expand" categories.
The framework has that information. I also asked Juan to layout the
UI so
that the main port list can easily be resized to accommodate a port
category
list view on the left - kind of like in Finder. Clicking on each
category
will filter the current port list to ports from just those
categories. If
there is time we will work on implementing this.
2) How are variants handled? Do you have a gui way to edit
$prefix/etc/macports/variants.conf? What about per-port variants
at install
time?
The framework also exposes them but currently they are not exposed
in the
GUI. I am not sure about editing variants.conf but per-port variants
at
install time is certainly doable. We just have to figure out a
reasonable UI
for it.
3) You said, "I’m working into getting that separate process to be
part of
the Framework and also make it send notifications back to the
Framework to
know the progress of the port command being run." ... I'm curious
what level
or notification you are designing. It would probably be nice to
have a
window that shows a general progress bar for the current port/
stage... but
for debugging purposes, it would be helpful if this could be
expanded via
"Details" button or similar to show the verbose or debug output.
The current design uses distributed objects to send messages from
the port
process to the Framework. The GUI has access to these messages from
the
Framework. Setting the verbose level is also possible using the
Framework.
We are planning to display a progress bar at the very least. A
window with
the log details should be fairly easy to do since we get all those
messages.
I have asked Juan to speak to the other GSoC student to see if any
of his
GSoC work would benefit us in this regard.
4) Do you plan to have a preferences interface to common
$prefix/etc/macports/macports.conf options?
We will need some help implementing this since I am not familiar
with the
macports.conf file / modifying its preferences etc. If it is one of
the
files the Tcl interpreter loads before performing port operations,
and is
modifiable via Macports Tcl commands then it should fairly easy to do.
I'll discuss the above with Juan and ask him to contact you with
some more
questions. Our goal right now is to have a functional, non-buggy GUI
that
performs all the basic port functions and can be easily extended with
advanced features. I think we will have time to implement some of
the above
suggestions.
Thanks for the feedback!
George.
On Jul 8, 2009, at 06:53, Juan Germán Castañeda Echevarria wrote:
El 8 de julio de 2009 01:41, Jeremy Huddleston
<[email protected]>escribió:
Hi Juan,
That looks very promising. I'm excited about this work. I do have
a few
questions.
1) Do you plan to support categories? Ports list categories that
they
belong to, so it would be nice to have a browsing option that
allows us to
"expand" categories.
I planed to use a source view, but I ended droping it because the
interface
design was a lot more complex (for me and users). Categories will be
filtered using the advanced search predicate editor.
2) How are variants handled? Do you have a gui way to edit
$prefix/etc/macports/variants.conf? What about per-port variants
at install
time?
I have thought of per-port variants only, but now that you say that,
I think
I could add something in the preferences window to change the
vavriants.conf
file
3) You said, "I’m working into getting that separate process to be
part of
the Framework and also make it send notifications back to the
Framework to
know the progress of the port command being run." ... I'm curious
what level
or notification you are designing. It would probably be nice to
have a
window that shows a general progress bar for the current port/
stage... but
for debugging purposes, it would be helpful if this could be
expanded via
"Details" button or similar to show the verbose or debug output.
Yes, that's the idea, I want to have progress bars and also detailed
log
views. The level of the notifications are customizable because I
change the
ui_$priority tcl methods to send the notifications.
4) Do you plan to have a preferences interface to common
$prefix/etc/macports/macports.conf options?
I haven't thought of preferences so far, in fact I added the
preferences
interface just to make it more friendly for this demo version (this
way you
don't have to change the source code). But thanks for pointing that,
I'll
take a look at macports.conf.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Thanks to you!!
--
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ishi
krimpatul.
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