Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:59:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] New make config UI Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303191356530.93137@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20130319094210.GE42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130319094210.GE42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > 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. It should probably check for use of /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh in /etc/make.conf. I doubt the two will work together.
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