On Mar 16, 2007, at 2:38 AM, Randall Wood wrote:

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You can still download it from here:

<http://opendarwin.org/~matt/dp-cocoa.tbz2>

Thank you.

Hi Randall. Your code to parse the PortIndex has illuminated me! (There are however some memory leaks since you're not releasing enough). Two years ago I tried to develop "Sport", a GUI for DarwinPorts written using AppleScript Studio, but its performances were very poor when handling thousands of table items. After having had a look at Pallet's code, I was favorably impressed and began to try to recreate Sport by copy&pasting some of your ideas. I rapidly came out with "Guigna" (the name of the smallest cat in the Americas) and I posted a screenshot at <http:// guido.soranzio.googlepages.com> so to share some ideas of mines (it's indeed quite a mockup): * a popdown button for filtering the categories; * an embedded WebView for displaying directly the home pages while browsing the ports; * the support for other systems in order to compare the available versions and to have a quick look at their makefiles (I am parsing the INDEXes of FreeBSD and NetBSD's pkgsrc after downloading their ports.tar.gz); * a mechanism similar to that of Ubuntu's Synaptic (the best package manager of all, in my opinion) for marking the modifications to the state of the packages before committing the changes in a batch. Guido