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Porticus 1.6 Released

A new version of Porticus is now available, this update adds the following:

  • The port details view now highlights ports which are required but not installed.
  • Porticus now tries to maintain selection after port operations.

You can get Porticus 1.6 here.

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11 Responses to “Porticus 1.6 Released”

  1. Pocket Says:
    April 18th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    Hello,I really admired your talent for development.
    If you can help me and accept my request.
    If you like to add a function to Porticus about “Port’s variant explanation.”
    Because I frequentry use Porticus but I often cant figure out what the variant means.

  2. admin Says:
    April 18th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    The port variants are documented on the MacPorts website which may help.

    http://guide.macports.org/#using.variants

  3. Square Bottle Says:
    April 20th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Porticus seems like exactly what I was looking for to help me with MacPorts, which had been frustrating the heck out of me. Coming from Gentoo’s portage, MacPorts just didn’t seem to be able to take care of things very well. But with Porticus, I’m much happier, and identifying problems and fixing them is easier now. Thanks for you hard work!

  4. Nirav Says:
    April 24th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    I really like the new feature showing dependents that are not installed. Allows me to manually install required dependents picking non-default variants as I go. Nice! I’m having an issue with Porticus crashing every time I do an update. The update completes successfully, I see the Growl notice saying so and then Porticus crashes.

    I can send you the crash log over email. What address should I send it to?

    Thanks for the great software.

  5. admin Says:
    April 24th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    Glad you like the update, crashing doesn’t sound so good though. If you can send the crash log and maybe the end of the Porticus.log file that would be very helpful. If you can send the details to alittledrop@gmail.com I would appreciate it.

    Thanks

  6. Mark Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 6:18 am

    New to porticus – can you tell me about the “new feature showing dependents that are not installed”? I’m not sure what you mean. Thanks.

  7. admin Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 8:08 am

    In the details view the entries in the list of build dependencies are coloured differently depending on whether they are already installed or not. Builds that are required but not installed are coloured red.

  8. Mark Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    I’m not sure what you mean by “builds that are required”. Required by what?

  9. admin Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

    A port can depend on many other ports, for example subversion depends on the following builds:

    expat neon apr apr-util db46 sqlite3 gettext libiconv serf cyrus-sasl2

    To install a subversion all these ports must be installed – and MacPorts takes care of all that for you :-)

  10. Michael Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    This is a great tool!
    I have two feature requests though

    1. A kind of install queue so that you can browse through the ports and add what you want to that queue. When you’re done, press the install button, and the items in the queue will install.

    2. A “Sleep when done” function. With this you can start the installation/update, and it will tell your mac to sleep when it’s done.

    Thanks

  11. admin Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 8:08 pm

    Thanks for the suggestions, I will have a look and see what can be done.

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