[HEADSUP] New make config UI

[HU Dong]

于 2013/3/19 18:54, Baptiste Daroussin 写道:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:49:51PM +0800, HU Dong wrote:
>> 于 2013/3/19 18:41, Baptiste Daroussin 写道:
>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:37:13PM +0800, HU Dong wrote:
>>>> 于 2013/3/19 18:31, Baptiste Daroussin 写道:
>>>>> 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
>>>> How to use it?
>>>>
>>>> I just updated my ports tree and installed it. But it seemed that the
>>>> "make config" command didn't change.
>>> No need to install it manually it will be automatically pulled in and the switch
>>> is automated.
>>>
>>> to make sure it works go to the mail/postfix* and try make config if the output
>>> is ugly then you are not using d4p (ports tree not uptodate enough :)) if it is
>>> pretty then you are using it.
>>>
>>> both uses dialog(3) so the UI is pretty close, just better :)
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Bapt
>> Thank you! It looks really nice.
>>
>> I accidently got a core dump file named dialog4ports.core when I tried
>> "make config" and was pressing some keys for testing purpose in
>> mail/postfix-current, but I don't know how to reproduce it. How should I
>> deal with the core file?
>>
>> B.R.
>> HU Dong
> If it is not big, send it to me, if it is a large one host it somewhere so that
> I can fetch.
>
> regards,
> Bapt
It's about 10.4MB. I've uploaded it to skydrive. Here's the download 
link: 
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=08e99d95c50a27fa&id=8E99D95C50A27FA%214023&authkey=!ACg43TTIeHWwoew

-- 
B.R.
HU Dong