From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 22:09:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9521065672 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A194B8FC12 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id p19LwnXL016415; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:58:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id p19LwdDN016404; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:58:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:58:39 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey To: David Boyd Message-ID: <20110209215839.GA16262@saltmine.radix.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new dialog/libdialog testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:09:21 -0000 --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:28:53AM -0500, David Boyd wrote: > Having some time to test 9.0-CURRENT with the new dialog command has > uncovered only one major omission (for us): prgbox/dialog_prgbox. >=20 > This is used in most (if not all) of our installation/management scripts. >=20 > Was prgbox omitted for any particular reason? >=20 > I realize that change is inevitable. >=20 > Is there a better approach to running a program in a window? >=20 > We like many of the new features presented, but are wary of problems down > the road due to the omission of prgrbox. >=20 > I notice that sysinstall uses dialog_prgbox in 8.1-RELEASE. I've had that widget (and a few others - tree and build-list) on my to-do list for a while, but don't recall noticing that the unimplemented ones were used much. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFNUw4OtIqByHxlDocRAiOrAJ9hJwmVm3e1t1jngT3BOluvXxrV3QCeNzoU KZ6+eH23XvkIY7Mo0+MxcKU= =9HNy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--