svn commit: r241701 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdconfig: . include share

[Devin Teske]

On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 06:43:54PM +0000, Devin Teske wrote:
>> NOTE: In FreeBSD-9 and higher, dialog(1) does not support the F1 hook, so
>> the mechanism for providing help to the user had to be changed to a button.
> 
> How come that new dialog(1) lacks functionality of the old one?
> 

SVN r217309 brought in cdialog to replace our the [unmaintained] dialog.

cdialog is different, but mostly compatible with its predecessor.

The benefits of cdialog far out-weigh the few problems that were reported (and then quickly fixed).

Most importantly, cdialog is actively maintained while its predecessor (in FreeBSD-8.x and older) is not.
-- 
Devin

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