[HEADSUP] New make config UI

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 01:59:04PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It should probably check for use of 
> /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh in /etc/make.conf.  I doubt 
> the two will work together.

dialogwrapper should be useless now isn't it?

regards,
Bapt
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