[CFT] New dialog for ports

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are 
> not supported.  We really need this.  A maintainer should be concerned 
> with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length at 
> the cost of clarity.  The user should not have to interpret short or 
> cut-off option descriptions.

pkg-help might help here in the first place, second this could be worked on for
a 0.2 version ;), have you tried anyway long description with this version? I
think they just works correctly, but I haven't tested.

regards,
Bapt
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