[CFT] New dialog for ports

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:39:14AM +0000, Steve Wills wrote:
> On 03/14/13 09:55, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > It uses libdialog (recent version) and extend it with a new widget able to deal
> > with both normal and radio options in the same window.
> > 
> > dialog4ports will live forever in ports so that it can easily be updated and get
> > support for new features on all supported arches at the same time.
> > 
> > It bundles libdialog on FreeBSD versions that doesn't have a recent libdialog in
> > base (read 8.x)
> > 
> > dialog4ports also support a new feature: it has a help dialog to be able to
> > print a human readable help text if possible.
> > 
> > Here is a patch to the ports tree that makes it use dialog4ports by default.
> > What it does is:
> > When make config is requested and dialog4ports is not installed yet the ports
> > tree will install dialog4ports first.
> > 
> > New feature for maintainer, if a pkg-help file is found inside the port
> > directory then dialog will show to the user a help file is available et propose
> > him to hint F1 or ^E to show the said help file
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/d4p.diff
> > 
> > Please test!
> 
> I didn't get a chance to test this before it was committed, but I'm
> currently running into this:
> 
> 
> % pwd
> /usr/local/tinderbox/portstrees/FreeBSD/ports/www/apache22
> % sudo make config
> dialog4ports isn't installed, do you want to install it now? [Y/n] n
> env: /usr/local/bin/dialog4ports: No such file or directory
> ===> Options unchanged
> %
> 
> And I'm prompted every time. Is this how it's supposed to work?
> 
> Steve
> 

I wonder if it is worth to let the question to install dialog4ports.

I mean dialog4ports being mandatory you should just be installed directly
doesn't it?

anyone have an opinion about this?

I will remove the question on 27/03 if I got more please do than please don't at
that time.

regards,
Bapt
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