Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:16:46 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] New make config UI Message-ID: <20130319221645.GD67352@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303191356530.93137@wonkity.com> References: <20130319094210.GE42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303191356530.93137@wonkity.com>
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--BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 01:59:04PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >=20 > > 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 com= pletion. > > > > A few month ago Ilya A. Arkhipov decided to jump in that problem and re= start > > from scratch a new version of dialog4ports, with the help of danfe, ead= ler 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. >=20 > It should probably check for use of=20 > /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh in /etc/make.conf. I doubt=20 > the two will work together. dialogwrapper should be useless now isn't it? regards, Bapt --BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlFI480ACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EwkJACgvGqS9ruZCkvnJ4ayaQ0eSh0v 134AoMElSiwVFHaKH/RJEneBxzEHEogU =hIUY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BRE3mIcgqKzpedwo--
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