于 2013/3/19 18:41, Baptiste Daroussin 写道:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:37:13PM +0800, HU Dong wrote:
于 2013/3/19 18:31, Baptiste Daroussin 写道:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:20:43AM +0100, David Demelier wrote:
2013/3/19 Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org>

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
completion.

A few month ago Ilya A. Arkhipov decided to jump in that problem and
restart
from scratch a new version of dialog4ports, with the help of danfe, eadler
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.

dialog4ports will live forever within the ports tree allowing to fastly
improve/fix it if needed and getting the exact same version on all the
plateforms.

What it currently does:
- represtend all kind of options in a clean way including
    RADIO/GROUP/MULTI/SINGLE
- provide a beta quality help dialog (via F1/^E) if a ports provide a
pkg-help
    file
- Able to represent description instead of the KNOBS name in section
titles for
    RADIO/GROUP/SINGLE/MULTI name

Huge thanks to Ilya A. Arkhipov (M1cRO on irc :))

regards,
Bapt

Thanks a lot for that work to all contributors. I will try this evening and
see how awesome it is :-).

One questions I have:

- Does the dialog4ports installation will be triggered in the pkg
autoremove command since it's a leaf.

Regards

--
Demelier David
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No because it is an explicit installation that is done.

regards,
Bapt
How to use it?

I just updated my ports tree and installed it. But it seemed that the
"make config" command didn't change.
No need to install it manually it will be automatically pulled in and the switch
is automated.

to make sure it works go to the mail/postfix* and try make config if the output
is ugly then you are not using d4p (ports tree not uptodate enough :)) if it is
pretty then you are using it.

both uses dialog(3) so the UI is pretty close, just better :)

regards,
Bapt
Thank you! It looks really nice.

I accidently got a core dump file named dialog4ports.core when I tried "make config" and was pressing some keys for testing purpose in mail/postfix-current, but I don't know how to reproduce it. How should I deal with the core file?

B.R.
HU Dong
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