About

This pages is about the improvements that are in place for ​Pallet during GSoC 2010. It contains both ideas, and progress info, as well as a roadmap (when that will be complete).

Proposed Changes

• Show/Select Variants
• Show Build/Lib/Runtime Dependencies
• Add Queueing of Operations
• Growl Support
• Logging Support

Framework

Since we are adding features on Pallet, some work will have to be done on the framework. Namely, i will have to include fetching of variants and dependencies, and since the framework currently appears to be broken, i will also have to fix the bugs that occured due to MacPorts' changes.

GUI

First of all, there will have to be a redesign of the Icons, which are currently 'hideous' for a Mac program. There will also have to be changes in the list of available ports to show variants. Since we will be adding Growl, there will need to be some redesign of the preferences window to add info on growl. For the queueing of operations, the idea is to create a drawer (or a pop-up window if the drawer is hard to implement) where operations are added, and when we are ready to go, we simply press start.