Jens Alfke wrote:
There are quite a lot of open source Cocoa components these days
everything from small utility classes, to new controls, to entire
frameworks but no easy way to find them all. I keep running into
various people's websites that list a handful of components, some of
them extremely useful, and I'm sure there are more I haven't seen.
[...]
Anyone interested? (Or know of an existing site that I've overlooked?)
http://freshmeat.net/
Not OS X specific, but well established and popular, and tagging and
searching entries by platform (MacOS X) and language (Objective C) is
easy.
FWIW, I'm not sure that the lack of Cocoa-specific directory sites is
so much the problem as getting OSS developers to create entries for
their projects on these sites _and_ keep them up to date. e.g. I
already have several projects of my own listed on FM, but don't always
remember to update the FM entries to keep it in sync with new file
releases. And I think there's a couple of listings on MacUpdate which
probably are well out of date by now as well.
Manually updating third-party listings on top of their own project
sites is a chore for OSS developers, so unless you're going to have a
full-time researcher/maintainer or some clever AI to update listings
independently, it may be better to encourage the use of existing
listings sites such as FM rather than create yet another one. It's not
that OSSers like myself don't appreciate the services provided by such
sites; it's just that the more of these sites we feel obliged to deal
with in order to reach our audience, the more time we spend on
administrating them when we'd rather be starting towards the next file
release.
HTH
has
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