Late post, but note that builds have been made for the final release. Source is available via git as usual.
What's New
Switching to meson
Posted by jaos on 2021/02/13
I've ported the builds from autoconf/make to meson. You can find the changes in the meson branch of each of the projects. I am pretty pleased so far and plan to merge these to the main branches soon.
Free Software
slapt-get
slapt-get is an APT like system for Slackware package management. It allows one to search slackware mirrors and third party sources for packages, compare them with installed packages, install new packages, or upgrade all installed packages. slapt-get is great for scripting as well.
Files:
Requires:
Documentation:
gslapt
GSlapt is a GTK frontend to the slapt-get library.
Files:
Requires:
- slapt-get
- gtk+3
- polkit
Documentation:
cpan2tgz
cpan2tgz is a utility to create Slackware packages from CPAN Perl module distributions.
Files:
Requires: (all available at www.cpan.org)
Documentation:
slapt-update-service
slapt-update-service is a DBus service which notifies about package updates available via slapt-get and gslapt. slapt-update-service places an icon in the user's notification area when updates are available. Clicking the icon starts upgrading with gslapt.
Files:
- No prebuilt packages
Requires:
- gtk+3
- dbus-glib
- gslapt
- polkit
Documentation:
slapt-src
slapt-src is a utility to make querying, retrieving, and building slackbuilds as easy as working with binary packages with slapt-get.
Files:
Requires:
- slapt-get
Documentation: