[CFT] New dialog for ports

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 04:15:56PM +0100, Marco Steinbach wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 17.03.2013 16:11:
> > 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.
> 
> I tried.  They get truncated, instead of overflowing and hosing the layout.
> 
> MfG CoCo
> 

Ok thanks let's push this feature request for 0.2 then

regards,
Bapt
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