Planet SoC

Long time no post. Anyway, I have some good news.
The Gtk code for Aptitude has been merged some time ago into the main development trunk and we now have a release in Experimental.

For those that don’t know about it, here’s what it’s all about : “The new frontend is is an effort to bring some of the design principles of the curses frontend to a GUI environment, while also exploiting the unique features a GUI gives us and exploring ways to deal with changes in the environment in the nine years since aptitude was first designed.”
I had a very good time this summer working on Aptitude with Daniel Burrows in the Google Summer of Code program and I’m very glad we now have a real release. This version is by no means final or perfect but it’s a good start.
Head for the blog post from Daniel for some other informations : [Daniel Burrows]