On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 01:59:04PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > 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. > > It should probably check for use of > /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh in /etc/make.conf. I doubt > the two will work together.
dialogwrapper should be useless now isn't it? regards, Bapt
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