Porticus
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, and provides 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.
- Porticus Website
- Porticus Website
Porticus is a must-have tool for MacPorts users wanting to remain within the Mac OS X graphical user interface. It not only provides you with a list of all ports installed, but you can click on an installed port in the list to view detailed port information. It also provides you with a list of outdated ports, and all ports currently available under MacPorts (currently claiming 4,244 ports).
