Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog

[John Baldwin]

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