svn commit: r305288 - head/Mk

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 12:51:07PM -1000, Jan Beich wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:59:46PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:12:50AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:56:21AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >> > > That's because OptionsNG poorly implement mutually exclusive options.  I
> >> > > hope that eventually dialog's --radiolist would be utilized for proper
> >> > > handling, and sane knobs names would be restored.
> >> > > 
> >> > > Sounds like a nice port junior hacker project.
> >> > 
> >> > Not hat junior dialog(1) can't mix radiolist and classic checklist that is
> >> > why it doesn't use it, using libdialog(3), it would be easiy to implement,
> >> > but that won't be usable for a while (until all supported version of
> >> > freebsd has it.
> >> 
> >> Ah, OK, that explains it (lack of radiobuttons now).  Is it known what's
> >> preventing all supported versions to have working libdialog(3), if we have
> >> working dialog(1) already?
> >> 
> >> ./danfe
> >
> > new dialog is only on 9.x and 10.x, if will require to code some special
> > dialog(1) dedicated for ports, MFCing libdialog to 8 and 7 is complicated
> > because the API isn't compatible.
> 
> Why not add devel/cdialog to bootstrap on < 9.0 and install it only when
> BATCH is not set?
> 

That do not change the fact that ${SOMEONE} will have to code a dialog(1)
dedicated for ports, the library is able to let us mix radio and check, but the
frontend (dialog(1)) is still not able to.

if someone stepup to do it, I'll be more than happy :)

regards,
Bapt
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