Side effects?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 06:07, Ian Wadham wrote:

> On 31/01/2013, at 2:37 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> 
>> It is routinely a GSoC project, and since we were not chosen last year it has definitely fallen behind.
>> 
>>> BTW, does Macports have a nice safe GUI?
> 
> If I knew what tools to use on Apple Mac, I might have a crack
> at it myself.  I have had quite a bit of experience with designing
> and programming GUIs, databases, SQL, Shell scripts and an
> in-house GUI-based build system where I used to work.

The tools to use on the Mac are Xcode and a knowledge of Cocoa.

You could always start by reading the code for Pallet, which is in our repository. Or even fork Pallet and work on improving it, with either the goal of improving Pallet or just learning enough about Cocoa and how to integrate with the MacPorts Framework to begin your own GUI from scratch.