PortAuthority 5.0 released

[Kevin Walzer]

Code by Kevin has released PortAuthority 5.0, a GUI for the MacPorts 
Unix software management system for Mac OS X.

PortAuthority provides a graphical user interface for the MacPorts 
software management system for Mac OS X. MacPorts is a powerful 
command-line tool for installing and updating a variety of Unix-based 
applications for the Mac. Its power, though, comes at the cost of some 
complexity; in the past the only way to utilize MacPorts was to type in 
various commands into the Mac's Terminal application, which can be 
intimidating for those users without a Unix background.

PortAuthority aims to bring the power of MacPorts to the traditional Mac 
user by providing a user-friendly graphical interface to MacPorts. Using 
a familiar combination of windows, icons, and menus, PortAuthority users 
can search, install, update, and remove MacPorts programs and the 
MacPorts infrastructure itself.

Among the features and improvements in this release:

* Support for installing port variants.
* Port dependency command now lists dependencies recursively--not just 
the direct dependencies of a port, but their dependencies as well--to 
give a better idea of how large an installation may be.
* Alerts are now configured in preferences.
* Expanded AppleScript support.
* Restored Growl support.
* More responsive display of data from long-running scan: less prone to 
lock up program.
* Fix bug in auto-update.

PortAuthority is shareware; a license costs $24.99 and a 30-day demo is 
available. Mac OS X 10.6 is the minimum supported OS. Upgrades are 
always free to registered users.

For more information about PortAuthority, including download links, see 
http://www.codebykevin.com/portauthority.html.
-- 
Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com