Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 April 2013 07:11, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: > I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, and I have a > project in mind that I am working to propose. > > I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. > I have been developing on FreeBSD for several

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 02:11:44AM -0400, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: > I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, and I have a > project in mind that I am working to propose. > I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. > I have been developing on Free

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am a CS major and have experience with Qt, C++ and shell scripting. I have been developing on FreeBSD for several years, and I am looking to tackle developing a new Qt front-end for the freebsd-update command. spend your time for something more useful :) ___

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Justin Edward Muniz
Thank you for your advice! I have already sent an email to Colin, and I did indeed take the idea from that page. Justin Muniz On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 14 April 2013 07:11, Justin Edward Muniz > wrote: > > I am excited for this year's Google Summer of Code, a

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Eitan Adler
On 14 April 2013 11:42, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: > Thank you for your advice! I have already sent an email to Colin, and I did > indeed take the idea from that page. I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be useful. One thing I would look into though, is what PC

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Justin Edward Muniz
> > I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be > useful. > > One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may > already have similar things. > > Very interesting, I am checking out the source for PC-BSD's updater to study it. Portsnap and pkgng seem

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: >> >> I think GUI front ends to freebsd-update, portsnap, or pkgng would all be >> useful. >> >> One thing I would look into though, is what PC-BSD offers. They may >> already have similar things. >> >> Very interesting, I am checking out

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Eitan Adler
On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools > do not offer at the moment? A GUI. -- Eitan Adler ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools >> do not offer at the moment? > > A GUI. > > That's kind of given :D But does FreeBSD lack a GUI for ports/packages mana

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Fernando ApesteguĂ­a
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > On 14 April 2013 12:15, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: > >> I have to also ask, what would a GUI offer that the command line tools > >> do not offer at the moment? > > > > A GUI. > > > > > >

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Justin Edward Muniz
> > Please don't mix the two, they are related but their usages do not really > overlap. > > portsnap(8) only deals with keeping the ports(7) tree and the > /usr/ports/INDEX file up to date. > > PKGNG (like the old pkg_* tools) is mostly concerned with registering > built ports as packages or insta

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Justin Edward Muniz
> > It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection. > There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It > might be worth a look at those first. > > [1] ports-mgmt/kports > [2] ports-mgmt/kports-qt4 > > Yes, I just found those GUI programs myself. N

Re: GSOC: Qt front-end for freebsd-update

2013-04-14 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Justin Edward Muniz wrote: >> >> It seems we already have something similar in the ports[1] collection. >> There is also a newer version[2] using Qt4 but it seems more limited. It >> might be worth a look at those first. >> >> [1] ports-mgmt/kports >> [2] ports-mgm

GSOC and Contribution to open source.

2013-04-14 Thread santosh hosamani
Hi , I am interested in participating for GSOC -2013 . I am interested in following ideas CPU online/offline project BHyVe BIOS emulation to boot legacy systems I have two years of work exp in linux kernel device driver,C now I have selected master thesis as virtualization so I would be intere