Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 07:54:38 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog Message-ID: <201101060754.38140.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110106110927.GA75316@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <4D25136A.4070107@freebsd.org> <20110106110927.GA75316@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Thursday, January 06, 2011 6:09:27 am Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:57:14PM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base > > system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey > > (http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is a > > much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the > > creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new > > versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better > > license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2). > > > > Patches to effect the import can be found at: > > - http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/libdialog-update.diff > > > > What the patches do: > > - Replaces dialog(1) with a new version. All command-line options of the > > old dialog except --fstree are accepted by the new dialog, and the ports > > options framework continues to work without modification. > > - Renames libdialog to libodialog (old dialog). The new dialog library > > has a much more pleasant API than the old one -- which directly implies > > that it has a substantially different API. Until sysinstall, sade, and > > tzsetup are replaced or rewritten, we need to keep the old library around. > > - Modifies sysinstall, sade, and tzsetup to link to libodialog instead > > of libdialog. > > - Deletes all man pages and examples associated with libodialog. This is > > deprecated code. > > - Installs new dialog library as libdialog > > - Bumps __FreeBSD_version to 900030 > > Are there any ports which link to the old version of libdialog, and if > so, what will happen to them? I think we should probably work on porting the existing libdialog consumers in the tree to the new version and then retire libodialog completely. We could then have a port of the old library for any ports that need it. -- John Baldwin
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