Re: A directory site for open-source Cocoa components?

FROM : Alex Kac
DATE : Thu May 22 21:39:08 2008

I'd be interested in something like this too.

I run a set of servers and also have several racks available for colo 
and all that. I wouldn't mind running it for now on my Xeon XServes 
and if need be, we can get another server to run it. Already have PHP, 
MySQL, and so on running.

> Sure, I'd be interested in having/using it.
>
> In fact, I would even be willing to host such a thing, although at the
> moment I have shared hosting from my hosting provider -- would that be
> an issue?  Anyway, give me a domain name idea and if enough people are
> interested I'll likely register it.
>
> Cheers,
>     Andrew
>
> On May 22, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>

>> There are quite a lot of open source Cocoa components these days —
>> everything from small utility classes, to new controls, to entire
>> frameworks — but no easy way to find them all. I keep running into
>> various people's websites that list a handful of components, some of
>> them extremely useful, and I'm sure there are more I haven't seen.
>>
>> I don't know of any website that acts as a directory of these. If
>> there really isn't one, maybe we should create one. It wouldn't
>> necessarily need to be the whole "___Forge" deal, with source
>> hosting and bug tracking and all, though that wouldn't hurt; the
>> main thing is just to provide a way to register these projects and
>> their descriptions, and then search the directory.
>>
>> Anyone interested? (Or know of an existing site that I've 
>> overlooked?)
>>
>> —Jens

>

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