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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:22:36 -0700
From:      Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Devin Teske <dteske@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r241701 - in head/usr.sbin/bsdconfig: . include share
Message-ID:  <D15CE1CB-E484-4C46-8304-60437EFEBC7D@fisglobal.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121019055442.GA9108@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201210181843.q9IIhs6N099621@svn.freebsd.org> <20121019055442.GA9108@FreeBSD.org>

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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 butt=
on.
>=20
> How come that new dialog(1) lacks functionality of the old one?
>=20

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.
--=20
Devin

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