Publisher's Description
From alittledrop:
Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager. MacPorts provides ready to build open-source software packages modified to compile and run on Mac OS X. The MacPorts project provides a TCL command line tool to manage installation, update and activation of the port packages. Porticus provides a GUI front-end to this tool.
Porticus does a little more than this by providing a GUI with standard Mac OS X application features such as a search box to find a specific port, contextual menus, tree and table views to select and view port information by category or name. In addition it provides integration with Growl for status reporting.
What's new in this version:
- Updated Greek localisation.
- Bug fixes.
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"This is ABANDONWARE"
Version: Porticus 1.8.1
Pros
It was nice while it worked. It's still reasonable for up through Mac OS X 10.6 and MacPorts v1.x.
Cons
It doesn't work properly with Mac OS X 10.7 or MacPorts v2. The home page of the source website has been abandoned.
Summary
If you have upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and MacPorts v2, abandon all hope. Porticus no longer works properly.
I used to enjoy Porticus, despite its persistent bugginess. It was far better than the awful old shareware PortAuthority (which it total suckage). The last version of Porticus, apparently forever, is 1.8.1. You can still download it. But it is NOT going to be updated. Therefore, it's ABANDONWARE. That's a shame. You can read about the situation here:
http://porticus.alittledrop.com/
I personally have adjusted to using the CLI commands for obtaining updates and installing MacPorts. There are only three major commands needed, plus a lot of patience, and manual removal of dead directories, plus tranquilizers...
If you'd like to use a GUI to manage your X11/XQuartz/MacPorts apps and services, the only decent alternative is the Pallet project. It's not as nice as Porticus but OK. You can read about it here:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsGUI
The CLI command to install it (if you already have everything else installed) is:
sudo port install Pallet
If you don't understand what that command means, then you're not ready for MacPorts. Get studying! It's a bit of a long learning curve. -
"Very nice: No problems in 10.6.7-64bit. No X11 needed."
Version: Porticus 1.8.1
Pros
Looks very similar to synaptic (ubuntu-debian) or yumex (redhat). Seems clean and polished and trustworthy. At startup shows 5 groups: Installed, New, Outdated, Updated, All Ports (with dozens of categories). Under Prefs very complete, includes debug
Cons
Nit picking: No help (yet), but you can always rtfm for port command. Wished it showed the files installed by each port, any setup scripts they run, etc.
Summary
Well worth having.
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