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Phynchronicity 2.0 in the works

I'm currently working on a major update to Phynchronicity, my GUI for the Fink Unix software package system. This new release incorporates the GUI overhaul that I previously developed for PortAuthority and PacketStream.

It's taken a bit longer than I expected to get the new update finished. One reason is that this is a larger update than the other programs: I phased in the changes to PortAuthority over two or three releases instead of one, and PacketStream required fewer changes because it's a slightly simpler program. Also, because Phynchronicity is written in Python instead of Tcl, the code libraries I developed to improve the layout of PortAuthority and PacketStream required some adaptation to work with Python--or had to be re-written in Python altogether. Finally, some of the update issues are simply specific to Phynchronicity--for instance, what's the best way to get all the information I want into a display if Fink (the underlying command-line tool that Phynchronicity drives) doesn't provide this data easily?

I'm pleased with the result; what's left to do is testing and updating of the user documentation. I can't wait to get the new release out. In the meantime, here's a preview of the new version:

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