wiki:MacPortsGUI

Version 4 (modified by juanger@…, 15 years ago) (diff)

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Functionality

  • Custom macports location (supports both privileged and unprivileged installations)
  • Install, Uninstall and Upgrade actions for ports
  • Sync and Selfupdate actions
  • Supports cancelling of operations
  • Search by name, description, state and variant
  • Progress indicator
  • View information of ports

TODO

  • Search by category
  • Variants selection
  • Preferences
  • Queueing of operations
  • Alerts when an error has ocurred
  • Growl support
  • Logging Support (using the work of the other GSoC student)

Gotchas

  • If you change from a privileged installation to a unprivileged installation (after running a task in that privileged installation) you can leave zombie processes. (This will be fixed by looking for the daemon process when closing the application no matter which mode it is in)