portsman - need feedback and testers

[Anselm Garbe]

Hi all,

   a while ago I asked on this list, if someone knows an curses based frontend for the 
FreeBSD ports collection, which behaves like a package manager (e.g. dselect under 
Debian), but I got only responds, that this does not yet exist.

   So I invested much time in the last 7 weeks to develop such a tool. Its name is 
portsman (= ports manager) und you'll find it under:

   http://portsman.berlios.de (homepage)
   http://developer.berlios.de/projects/portsman/ (developer page)

   Today I released the first rc of upcoming portsman 0.2, you can download the 
package under:

   http://download.berlios.de/portsman/portsman-0.2-rc1.tar.gz

   Currently I have not much feedback about it, so it'd be great if you could try it 
and give me feedback. :-)

   If you like you also can checkout the latest CVS version as described on portsman's 
homepage.


   Thanks,
Anselm
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Re: portsman - need feedback and testers

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.01.22 21:11:26 +, Anselm Garbe wrote:

Btw. could you wrap your lines at 72 chars?

 Currently I have not much feedback about it, so it'd be great if you
 could try it and give me feedback. :-)
Very nice. I personally prefer command lines but especially for new users
this seems very interesting.

I tried it a bit and only fonund two minor things..

The helpfile location is hardcoded to a location it might not be at (I
keep manually installed programs in /usr/loca/site), and I think the
program should give some kind of warning if the help file cannot be
found... I wondered a bit why 'h' did not work...

When running in a xterm and resizing the window the header and footer
resizes but not the description text of the ports.

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