From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 17 15:18:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68705F9A; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:18:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from coco@executive-computing.de) Received: from mail.moehre.org (mail.moehre.org [195.96.35.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75C96F2; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.moehre.org (unknown [195.96.35.7]) by mail.moehre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498998B143B; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:18:14 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -100.966 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-100.966 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1, AWL=0.034, USER_IN_WHITELIST=-100] autolearn=disabled Received: from mail.moehre.org ([195.96.35.7]) by mail.moehre.org (mail.moehre.org [195.96.35.7]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wsbVim03dTFI; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:18:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.100.30] (p54B08F18.dip.t-dialin.net [84.176.143.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: coco@executive-computing.de) by mail.moehre.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BE0168B1420; Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:18:12 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5145DE2C.40302@executive-computing.de> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:15:56 +0100 From: Marco Steinbach User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20130317151102.GD72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20130317151102.GD72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Warren Block , ports@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:18:15 -0000 Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 17.03.2013 16:11: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> >>> 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. >> My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are >> not supported. We really need this. A maintainer should be concerned >> with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length at >> the cost of clarity. The user should not have to interpret short or >> cut-off option descriptions. > > pkg-help might help here in the first place, second this could be worked on for > a 0.2 version ;), have you tried anyway long description with this version? I > think they just works correctly, but I haven't tested. I tried. They get truncated, instead of overflowing and hosing the layout. MfG CoCo