About

Pallet is the official MacPorts GUI app for Mac OS X and was started as a GSOC project in May 2009.

It is in active development and continuous improvement and currently you can use it to install, upgrade and uninstall ports. If you find an issue, please create a ​New Ticket.

Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.5 or better
• A MacPorts installation

Screenshots

Download

​Pallet.dmg

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

• Pallet Application Icon
• Improvement of action icons
• 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)
• Error alerts

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)
• Sometimes the progressbar doesn't animates