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

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Thu May 22 22:05:09 2008

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Jens Alfke <<email_removed>> 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?)



My $2 (inflation's a bitch):

I own the "dot-app.org" domain, and I'm not doing all that much with it
aside from collecting spam. I'm not too keen on transferring ownership at
this point in time - I'd like to keep the option of doing something else
with it if this idea doesn't pan out. But I'd be willing to donate it to a
nonprofit foundation (similar to how the Perl Foundation now owns cpan.org)
if the site makes it that far. For now, if someone has a machine to host
this thing, I can easily point the DNS entries at it.

sherm--

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