Hi guys,
The first draft of the MacPorts GUI app called Fossick can be downloaded from:
http://www.filedropper.com/fossickclonetar
by clicking a Download button or two, once you can find your way past all the
ads. Does anybody know a better file share site? I'm a newbie at this stuff.
If you download into a working directory of your choice, you should get a file
called FossickClone.tar.gz. Use "tar xvzf FossickClone.tar.gz" to unpack it
into a subdirectory structure called "FossickClone".
Now you will need to use Xcode to Open… the Fossick.xcodeproj directory you
will find in the FossickClone subdirectory. Use Command-B to build the code
or use the Run arrow button at the top left of the Xcode toolbar to build and
run.
Before you do, just a few checks:
1. Fossick assumes the MacPorts prefix to be /opt/local: that is not
configurable yet.
2. I have been compiling, building and testing with Xcode 4.6.1 and OS X
10.7.5 Lion:
Fossick might not work with an earlier Xcode, compiler set or Cocoa
library.
The problem is that Apple has made sweeping and frequent changes to such
fundamental features as dynamic memory management in Objective-C, how
widgets behave when a window is resized, how Interface Builder links to
apps
and how Cocoa "bindings" and Interface Builder "connections" to apps
work.
3. Please have a look at the README file first. It covers the development
status
of Fossick and the operation of the GUI.
I would appreciate reviews of any aspect of Fossick, but in particular:
a. The specification - in file FossickSpec.txt.
b. The GUI - how it works, ease of use, etc.
c. The source code.
d. Backwards compatibilty - in theory Xcode 4.6 can build for earlier
versions of
OS X than 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion, but I have no idea how that
works
out in practice and documentation seems to be vague to non-existent.
Re points c. and d., I have been struggling a bit with Xcode, Cocoa and
Interface
Builder and would appreciate some "mentoring" if anyone can offer it. After 11
years of C++ and the Qt library, I am experiencing a little culture shock … :-(
I hope you will like Fossick.
All the best, Ian W.
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