Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 20:15:34 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports INDEX browser update Message-ID: <199612040945.UAA16255@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <96Dec3.204125pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Dec 3, 96 08:41:14 pm"
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Bill Fenner stands accused of saying: > > For non-interactive ports, it'd be much nicer to just create a text > widget into which you put the output of the command you spawned > asyncrhonously. (This is actually really easy, code upon request). > However, I've never tried to do an interactive shell this way. Yeah; it's the whole "parse the *&%$& Makefile" come back to haunt me 8) > You can define NOCLEANDEPENDS to make it not do this. bsd.port.mk pretty > much has a variable for every behavior =) I've noticed 8) > Bill -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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