Project Goals
You may say, there are enough tools to manage the ports and packages within FreeBSD. Now this will be a gui which manages all the tools.
At this point, I think you are wrong.
All in all gports will be usable to search ports in a google like syntax, install, deinstall und upgrade your installed ports, find files which are not registered, and not at least create new ports using an engine which does much work for you.
Release 0.1
The first Release 0.1 we will have the following implementations:
- Searching through the Portstree by a google like style. That means, you can use a syntax like ‘network www -browser’
- Upgrade your porttree will dynamicaly update the ports index db.
We will release 0.1 for all three project, the libports, gports and porttools.
If you want to help, join the gports-developer list and ask there what you can do.