Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:08:15 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports Message-ID: <20130317150815.GC72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <5145D096.1010403@executive-computing.de> References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <5145D096.1010403@executive-computing.de>
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--WplhKdTI2c8ulnbP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 03:17:58PM +0100, Marco Steinbach wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 14.03.2013 10:55: > > Hi all, > >=20 > > Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the = ports > > tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for = dialog(1) > > designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng. > >=20 > > It uses libdialog (recent version) and extend it with a new widget able= to deal > > with both normal and radio options in the same window. >=20 > I very much like this from the few ports I tried it with for now. >=20 > Having UI elements in a config dialog behave like real radio groups is=20 > great, separating them from each other with horizontal lines adds=20 > greatly to readability and usabilty from where I sit. >=20 > Being able to specifiy a descriptive text to be displayed in the heading= =20 > of radio option groups is a very welcome feature, since that'll give me= =20 > a chance to be more concise about what the user will get from the group. >=20 > I think 'make showconfig' should learn to display these, also. >=20 > Albeit being a rather small change, I quite like the use of a small 'X'= =20 > letter for ticked options. >=20 > > dialog4ports will live forever in ports so that it can easily be update= d and get > > support for new features on all supported arches at the same time. > >=20 > > It bundles libdialog on FreeBSD versions that doesn't have a recent lib= dialog in > > base (read 8.x) > >=20 > > dialog4ports also support a new feature: it has a help dialog to be abl= e to > > print a human readable help text if possible. >=20 > That's also very useful. I thought about asking for having long lines=20 > being automatically reflowed to screen width, but this would probably=20 > open a small can of worms. Anyway, help is supposed to give hints, not= =20 > to replace documentation, and using fmt(1) on pkg-help before submission= =20 > is not exactly rocket science. >=20 > > Here is a patch to the ports tree that makes it use dialog4ports by def= ault. > > What it does is: > > When make config is requested and dialog4ports is not installed yet the= ports > > tree will install dialog4ports first. > >=20 > > New feature for maintainer, if a pkg-help file is found inside the port > > directory then dialog will show to the user a help file is available et= propose > > him to hint F1 or ^E to show the said help file > >=20 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/d4p.diff > >=20 > > Please test! >=20 > Nice work -- much appreciated :) >=20 > MfG CoCo > PS: There's a typo in the message asking for the dialog4ports=20 > installation. It reads '... installed to you want ...', but probably=20 > should read '... installed, do you want ...'. >=20 Thanks for tests and feedback, also thanks for the typo, I ll fix before committing. regards, Bapt --WplhKdTI2c8ulnbP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlFF3F8ACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwirwCdHPLYHkPDhUlqI9HT9jnP8Bv/ YZEAoJP6HdkYX/L2/HSkCsuRUXXmAMIy =4NTp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WplhKdTI2c8ulnbP--
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