Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:02:33 +0800 From: HU Dong <itechbear@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] New make config UI Message-ID: <514845C9.5050409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130319105419.GH42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130319094210.GE42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <CAO%2BPfDepQbreU4mmjhMtpDpzmHiDMj6H80EddLgbRSanJWhJhw@mail.gmail.com> <20130319103104.GF42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <51483FD9.1030309@gmail.com> <20130319104133.GG42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <514842CF.8070003@gmail.com> <20130319105419.GH42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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于 2013/3/19 18:54, Baptiste Daroussin 写道: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:49:51PM +0800, HU Dong wrote: >> 于 2013/3/19 18:41, Baptiste Daroussin 写道: >>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:37:13PM +0800, HU Dong wrote: >>>> 于 2013/3/19 18:31, Baptiste Daroussin 写道: >>>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:20:43AM +0100, David Demelier wrote: >>>>>> 2013/3/19 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Since the work on the new options framework has been started more than 2 >>>>>>> years >>>>>>> ago, we faced a problem with the make config interface. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> dialog(1) is too limited to be able to represent in a simple UI all the >>>>>>> features >>>>>>> proposed by the new framework. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The idea of writing a new UI was born at that time, eadler step in and >>>>>>> wrote a >>>>>>> first attempt called dialog4ports using ncurses, but never get into >>>>>>> completion. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> A few month ago Ilya A. Arkhipov decided to jump in that problem and >>>>>>> restart >>>>>>> from scratch a new version of dialog4ports, with the help of danfe, eadler >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> I. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The new version is based on dialog(3), adding to it a new widget (which is >>>>>>> planned to be contributed upstream) and a new UI using that widget. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> After months of thinking/coding/testing we have been able to switch to >>>>>>> this new >>>>>>> UI and get rid of the old dialog(1) for make config. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> dialog4ports will live forever within the ports tree allowing to fastly >>>>>>> improve/fix it if needed and getting the exact same version on all the >>>>>>> plateforms. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What it currently does: >>>>>>> - represtend all kind of options in a clean way including >>>>>>> RADIO/GROUP/MULTI/SINGLE >>>>>>> - provide a beta quality help dialog (via F1/^E) if a ports provide a >>>>>>> pkg-help >>>>>>> file >>>>>>> - Able to represent description instead of the KNOBS name in section >>>>>>> titles for >>>>>>> RADIO/GROUP/SINGLE/MULTI name >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Huge thanks to Ilya A. Arkhipov (M1cRO on irc :)) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> regards, >>>>>>> Bapt >>>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks a lot for that work to all contributors. I will try this evening and >>>>>> see how awesome it is :-). >>>>>> >>>>>> One questions I have: >>>>>> >>>>>> - Does the dialog4ports installation will be triggered in the pkg >>>>>> autoremove command since it's a leaf. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Demelier David >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>>> No because it is an explicit installation that is done. >>>>> >>>>> regards, >>>>> Bapt >>>> How to use it? >>>> >>>> I just updated my ports tree and installed it. But it seemed that the >>>> "make config" command didn't change. >>> No need to install it manually it will be automatically pulled in and the switch >>> is automated. >>> >>> to make sure it works go to the mail/postfix* and try make config if the output >>> is ugly then you are not using d4p (ports tree not uptodate enough :)) if it is >>> pretty then you are using it. >>> >>> both uses dialog(3) so the UI is pretty close, just better :) >>> >>> regards, >>> Bapt >> Thank you! It looks really nice. >> >> I accidently got a core dump file named dialog4ports.core when I tried >> "make config" and was pressing some keys for testing purpose in >> mail/postfix-current, but I don't know how to reproduce it. How should I >> deal with the core file? >> >> B.R. >> HU Dong > If it is not big, send it to me, if it is a large one host it somewhere so that > I can fetch. > > regards, > Bapt It's about 10.4MB. I've uploaded it to skydrive. Here's the download link: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=08e99d95c50a27fa&id=8E99D95C50A27FA%214023&authkey=!ACg43TTIeHWwoew -- B.R. HU Dong
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