Why is it called Pallet? David
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Mark Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I love it. I agree with Ryan, I think a portfile Editor/IDE should be a > separate MacPorts.framework project from Pallet. > > —Mark > _______________________ > Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On May 6, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Kyle Sammons wrote: >> >> > My name's Kyle Sammons and I've been accepted into this years GSoC. I >> was also a GSoC participant for MacPorts last year working on Project >> "Clean-up Stuff", which created the "port doctor" and "port reclaim" >> commands. >> > >> > My project for this year is to get Pallet, the MacPorts GUI, up and >> running with the support for newest versions of OS X and XCode. After that, >> I intend to give it, and the Framework, some more modern-day-MacPorts >> features. No features are set in stone as of yet, but I'm considering >> adding doctor, reclaim, rev-upgrade, a progress bar, or possibly even the >> ability to edit portfiles. >> > >> > Once again, none of these potential features are set in stone so if you >> guys would like to suggest any that would be nice to have, or have some >> questions/concerns about the project, feel free to shoot me an email. >> >> Great idea! I would only propose that you *not* pursue the idea of >> letting people edit portfiles, as that opens up lots of possibilities for >> problems. Pallet should be the utility for users who are not comfortable >> using the command line. Those users don't need to be editing portfiles. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev > >
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