Side effects?

[Jeremy Lavergne]

It isn't an attack on you: we have a page devoted to the specific instance I'm referencing:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/DarwinPortsFraud


Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:

>On 1/30/13 10:57 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> One time funding (pay for a task) is (arguably) different than
>routinely asking for money. We have had trolls in the past like that,
>simply feeding off people.
>
>Well, I don't think I'm a troll...for a long time PortAuthority was the
>
>only viable GUI tool for MacPorts. See this ancient blog entry calling 
>for a MacPorts GUI at GSoc:
>
>http://ihack.us/2008/03/24/building-a-gui-for-macports/
>
>Dr. Ernie called PA a "clever" product and the "state-of-the-art" at
>the 
>time.
>
>GUI programming is hard. I think that's one reason why a free, 
>open-source GUI tool for MacPorts has never really taken off: I have 
>literally watched such tools come and go over the past eight or nine 
>years that I've been a MacPorts (formerly DarwinPorts) user.
>
>One reason I'm still at it is PA provides a modest amount of income for
>
>me. And if PA makes MacPorts more usable to some, and attracts more 
>users, then that's to MacPorts' benefit as well.
>
>If a professional-level, full-featured, open-source GUI tool for 
>MacPorts came along, I'm sure the community would embrace it. I would 
>certainly welcome the competition. But finding someone devoted enough
>to 
>do that level of work, for free, as a volunteer, is a real challenge. 
>No free/OSS GUI tool for MacPorts comparable in professionalism to 
>Fink's FinkCommander has ever emerged.
>
>--Kevin