Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 18:04:26 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Jeff <jeffh@Cybernetics.NET> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.mt.net>, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <2366.796442666@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 95 19:31:15 EST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.950328192758.11572A-100000@server0>
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> What version of perl will ship with 2.1? If it is version 5, then I will > port Pearl Vision over to FreeBSD, which is a pretty slick pearl > extension that puts dialog to shame (IMHO). Sorry, version 4.036. When Perl 5 leaves BETA test status, then it will perhaps enter our tree under some different name. This isn't to say that you can't still make PerlVision a port.. > Dialog is cool, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth for some reason. Well, it's what we've got, so.. If you can offer a better alternative that fits onto a boot floppy, I'm all ears! :-) > One thing that I think would be ultimately cool is a progress bar for the > package installations. Maybe by hacking some of the common tools it That's already in the Linux version of dialog and Andrew Chernov stated some time back that he'd be bringing it over. I don't know what the status of that is. Andrew? Jordan
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