Re: Macports needs a little marketing

2016-11-06 Thread Stephen Baber
Hi, author of JPortsUI here. JPortsUI can run on all newer versions (7 & 8) of the JRE but I've kept compatibility with JRE6 for any Lion or Snow Leopard users out there as Oracle does not deploy JRE8 to platforms older than OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. I still test JPortsUI to insure compatibility wi

JPortsUI has been updated

2017-04-07 Thread Stephen Baber
JPortsUI has been updated due to an error when loading the port index. And by request, the program's behavior has been changed from always removing inactive ports to ignoring them, This means previous port versions will linger until uninstalled. The new version can be downloaded from https://sour

Re: JPortsUI has been updated

2017-04-10 Thread Stephen Baber
JPortsUI has been updated due to an error when loading a file:// hosted port index (ex. GitHib) and an error when uninstalling ports has been corrected. This version, 2017-04-10, can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/jportsui/files/ Feel free to submit a ticket or feature request

JPortsUI, an open source, java based GUI to MacPorts, has been updated

2017-05-15 Thread Stephen Baber
JPortsUI, an open source, java based GUI to MacPorts, has been updated to version 2015-05-15 with new features such as one-click .PDF generation and Previewing of installed port executable's "man" pages. Browsing any port's change logs via macports.org. Better quality dependent information now app

Re: JPortsUI, an open source, java based GUI to MacPorts, has been updated

2017-05-15 Thread Stephen Baber
Correction, version 2017-05-15. Should have waited two more days before releasing :\

Re: How to get date when port was added? To list ports added in last 1/2/3/.../X weeks?

2017-06-20 Thread Stephen Baber
I have written a UI for MacPorts used by some in our community. It implements this very feature you asked of. By clicking "What's new" and setting the number of days back, you will see ports whose backing Portfile was updated by rsync. It also shows a totals view for seeing port changes grouped

Missing /opt/local/share/man/whatis DB

2017-06-20 Thread Stephen Baber
Hi MacPorts architects/maintainers, Author of JPortsUI here. I have built features into the next version of my application that use the "whatis" DB to describe the executable files installed after MacPorts completes a "port install foo". Presently I am letting the user know that this feature won'

JPortsUI has been updated to version 2017-07-02

2017-07-02 Thread Stephen Baber
Updated with new features: <> Better Variants picker UI with selected defaults, conflict resolution, and Portfile presentation <> Unmark/Clear Marks commands now also revert Variant edits <> Separate grouping of Port's executable installed files with descriptions via `whatis' <> Command to create M