[PATCH] Proposal for a new option framework

Chip Camden sterling at camdensoftware.com
Wed Nov 17 22:02:54 UTC 2010


Quoth Eitan Adler on Wednesday, 17 November 2010:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Baptiste Daroussin
> <baptiste.daroussin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to expose you a new proposal for the framework option.
> >
> ...
> 
> For the people that missed my original thread, I've been working on a
> dialog replacement for ports. The program is a
> a) free (MIT licensed)
> b) smart enough to deal with mutually exclusive options and user-input options
> c) have the ability have "long descriptions" of options
> d) more
> 
> The source code that I've been working on is here:
> https://code.google.com/p/dialog4ports/source/browse/
> 
> This program could integrate well with bapt's patch.
> Comments, testing, review is welcome - especially in concert with bapt's patch.
> 
> -- 
> Eitan Adler
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I downloaded it and tried it out.  Whenever I try to navigate around the
options, I get a "File specified does not exist" error.  I looked at the
source, and it appears to be looking for a license (or "licence" (sic))
file, but I didn't even specify one.

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