ZetaWatch VS are-we-there-yet

Compare ZetaWatch vs are-we-there-yet and see what are their differences.

ZetaWatch

ZFS OSX Menu Bar widget (by cbreak-black)

are-we-there-yet

Are We There Yet? Small Project Tracking Desktop App for Windows and Mac. Built with Glimmer (Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library) (by AndyObtiva)
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ZetaWatch are-we-there-yet
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0.0 0.0
over 1 year ago over 1 year ago
Objective-C++ Ruby
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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ZetaWatch

Posts with mentions or reviews of ZetaWatch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-20.
  • Easy Way for ZFS on Mac with Raid?
    1 project | /r/zfs | 16 Apr 2023
    I wrote ZetaWatch ages ago, but it won't do the setup / installation / pool creation, just some of the administration after that.
  • Which scheme and format should one use for an external SSD on a Mac?
    1 project | /r/mac | 22 Mar 2023
    There is a useful (but not very beautiful) app to put control in the top bar - https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch
  • OpenZFS on OS X
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2022
    After dabbling with early stuff from the sadly scrapped Apple effort, I started my full time Mac ZFS journey in 2011 with the then Z-410, which then became ZEVO which was 10.8 only, and then staying on that (and in turn 10.8 doho) on a Mac Pro 3,1 for a solid 4 years or so. I was really sad when that effort didn't pan out and the company got acquired and then the whole deal was killed, but O3X revived the torch and I moved directly onto that. I've carried my pool forward continuously the whole way, with snapshots and everything, all data scrubbed and known good with no more data rot. It's a damn shame events (software patents) conspired to keep that from becoming a universal native fs, but it's still a wonderful thing and Lundman's amazing consistent efforts have been fantastic. The main site at https://openzfsonosx.org/ has decently active forums for something niche.

    Without Apple on board or a much bigger effort ZFS on the Mac will probably always have some real limitations particularly with the GUI. For one of my desktop systems I've migrated to running my home and data folders as HFS or APFS formatted iSCSI targets, so it's still on ZFS underneath but appears native to macOS (and that also means that the effective death of towers isn't a limit on storage). But this remains an incredible project IMO.

    Also for anyone who wants some limited GUI interaction capability, there is a small project called ZetaWatch [0] which will put some ZFS control into a menubar widget.

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    0: https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch/

  • Automating zfs on external drive
    1 project | /r/zfs | 30 Apr 2021
    To auto-import and easily export pools on Mac OS, I wrote https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch, it can be configured to auto-mount and auto-unlock encrypted datasets too.
  • ZFS Web GUI
    2 projects | /r/zfs | 5 Mar 2021
    I wrote https://github.com/cbreak-black/ZetaWatch, a ZFS GUI for Mac OS for doing the common jobs: Importing / Exporting pools, unlocking and mounting datasets, starting and monitoring scrubs, and of course looking at the status. I did this in the form of a Menu Bar widget. That makes more sense than a web page, since it's always available / visible.

are-we-there-yet

Posts with mentions or reviews of are-we-there-yet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ZetaWatch and are-we-there-yet you can also consider the following projects:

zfsmanager - ZFS administration tool for Webmin

glimmer-dsl-swt - Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Framework) - The Quickest Way From Zero To GUI - If You Liked Shoes, You'll Love Glimmer!

zfs - OpenZFS on OS X

cryptopunks-gui - (crypto) pixel punks - libraries, tools & scripts, and more [Moved to: https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/cryptopunks]

clipper-lite - 6mb clone of the original 165mb Clipper! Made with Sciter instead of Electron.

file-digests - 📐 A tool to check if there are any changes in your files by storing and later checking their digests/hashes (BLAKE2b512, SHA3-256, or SHA512-256).

ZFSStatusScript - Menu bar app to provide ZFS zpool status

Glimmer - DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for XML (& HTML), and Glimmer DSL for CSS

Gladiator (Glimmer Editor) - Gladiator (short for Glimmer Editor) is a Glimmer DSL for SWT sample project under on-going development that demonstrates how to build a text editor in Ruby using Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Library). It is not intended to be a full-fledged editor by any means, yet mostly a fun educational exercise in using Glimmer. Gladiator is also a personal tool for shaping an editor exactly the way I like, with all the keyboard shortcuts I prefer. I leave building truly professional text editors to software tooling experts who would hopefully use Glimmer one day. Otherwise, I have been happily using Gladiator to develop all my open-source projects since May of 2020.

Shoes - Shoes 4 : the next version of Shoes

glimmer-cw-nebula - Nebula - Glimmer Custom Widget