[HEADSUP] New make config UI

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:20:43AM +0100, David Demelier wrote:
> 2013/3/19 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since the work on the new options framework has been started more than 2
> > years
> > ago, we faced a problem with the make config interface.
> >
> > dialog(1) is too limited to be able to represent in a simple UI all the
> > features
> > proposed by the new framework.
> >
> > The idea of writing a new UI was born at that time, eadler step in and
> > wrote a
> > first attempt called dialog4ports using ncurses, but never get into
> > completion.
> >
> > A few month ago Ilya A. Arkhipov decided to jump in that problem and
> > restart
> > from scratch a new version of dialog4ports, with the help of danfe, eadler
> > and
> > I.
> >
> > The new version is based on dialog(3), adding to it a new widget (which is
> > planned to be contributed upstream) and a new UI using that widget.
> >
> > After months of thinking/coding/testing we have been able to switch to
> > this new
> > UI and get rid of the old dialog(1) for make config.
> >
> > dialog4ports will live forever within the ports tree allowing to fastly
> > improve/fix it if needed and getting the exact same version on all the
> > plateforms.
> >
> > What it currently does:
> > - represtend all kind of options in a clean way including
> >   RADIO/GROUP/MULTI/SINGLE
> > - provide a beta quality help dialog (via F1/^E) if a ports provide a
> > pkg-help
> >   file
> > - Able to represent description instead of the KNOBS name in section
> > titles for
> >   RADIO/GROUP/SINGLE/MULTI name
> >
> > Huge thanks to Ilya A. Arkhipov (M1cRO on irc :))
> >
> > regards,
> > Bapt
> >
> 
> Thanks a lot for that work to all contributors. I will try this evening and
> see how awesome it is :-).
> 
> One questions I have:
> 
> - Does the dialog4ports installation will be triggered in the pkg
> autoremove command since it's a leaf.
> 
> Regards
> 
> -- 
> Demelier David
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No because it is an explicit installation that is done.

regards,
Bapt
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