Is it worth persevering with Macports_Framework?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Tue Feb 12 02:05:13 PST 2013


On 2013-02-10 18:51, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> On 2/10/13 1:39 AM, Ian Wadham wrote:
>> Should I persevere with Macports_Framework?  It's been a while since I
>> worked with threads and concurrent processes and Apple's way of doing
>> things, in Objective C, OS X and Xcode is all new to me.  I enjoy a
>> challenge,
>> but in this case, is it (Macports_Framework) worth the effort?  People
>> are
>> lukewarm about having a GUI for Macports anyway.  I am not, but I find
>> the framework for interacting with Macports to be huge and rather
>> daunting.
> 
> It's been my observation that as long as MacPort devs have worked on a
> GUI, they have tried to do it the hard way--writing it in Cocoa, and
> making use of MacPorts internals.



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