updated dialog(1) replacement for ports

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Thu Dec 2 16:06:22 UTC 2010


Quoth Eitan Adler on Thursday, 02 December 2010:
> I've been working on a dialog(1) replacement as used in the ports system.
> The goal is to replace both the options and the license screen with a
> single binary. It also features long descriptions, mutually exclusive
> options, and some other nice features.
> 
> The source code be found here along with some testing scripts.
> http://isis.poly.edu/~eitan/files/d4p-v16.tgz
> 
> If you want to follow development:
> hg clone http://dialog4ports.googlecode.com/hg/ dialog4ports
> 
> I will be adapting a recent patch from bapt@ to integrate this ports
> system soon and send it to the list.
> 
> If anyone has any questions, concerns, or code reviews please let me know.
> 
> -- 
> Eitan Adler
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Every keystroke causes the screen to completely repaint.

If I accidentally leave off --port name, it core dumps.

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Sterling (Chip) Camden    | sterling at camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F
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