From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 19 10:50:19 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34C45CA; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:50:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itechbear@gmail.com) Received: from mail-da0-x22b.google.com (mail-da0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::22b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9A1923; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-da0-f43.google.com with SMTP id u36so244225dak.16 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:50:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=RqdxY8qRNwNX0eLZ91E4JJSVQBAnxn4prSV7+Ymf450=; b=uRTLivjno6Xg7s1K9yczb8USjOYIJzaKtlnTm3WLYcaCn8XJFUWppdV75GIzD4HygB 0nLpp9YoVco7vUpeJyjvJ/22XBHmVKv+qggW9t0YFlCyUzO/OckLRJUhwi02ZY6t4ENr s/az/MihvXa9nUW4rJ/9cF2mic46/wbuKd6UNMX0lGW/yrQ54fowSvSK+vfoeq9YWtXI ZtRJyEVNjJS2vu9wmgPqGnhcYrHR5UaZHYrk7YgU8LGeWJ3LSdtHlCvPS0f9JD68eTIs ce+1FuWDT7mj9J9RhpaWX2GQPFLzXeWr6ijWWvfUeqIzC9kC/YmiWW2K3Ufl1lJQAxXT Qcew== X-Received: by 10.68.221.68 with SMTP id qc4mr2297854pbc.152.1363690219244; Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.14.100] ([1.202.225.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gf1sm2503501pbc.24.2013.03.19.03.50.15 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <514842CF.8070003@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:49:51 +0800 From: HU Dong User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Baptiste Daroussin Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] New make config UI References: <20130319094210.GE42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20130319103104.GF42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <51483FD9.1030309@gmail.com> <20130319104133.GG42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20130319104133.GG42160@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: David Demelier , ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:50:19 -0000 于 2013/3/19 18:41, Baptiste Daroussin 写道: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:37:13PM +0800, HU Dong wrote: >> 于 2013/3/19 18:31, Baptiste Daroussin 写道: >>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:20:43AM +0100, David Demelier wrote: >>>> 2013/3/19 Baptiste Daroussin >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> dialog4ports will live forever within the ports tree allowing to fastly >>>>> improve/fix it if needed and getting the exact same version on all the >>>>> plateforms. >>>>> >>>>> What it currently does: >>>>> - represtend all kind of options in a clean way including >>>>> RADIO/GROUP/MULTI/SINGLE >>>>> - provide a beta quality help dialog (via F1/^E) if a ports provide a >>>>> pkg-help >>>>> file >>>>> - Able to represent description instead of the KNOBS name in section >>>>> titles for >>>>> RADIO/GROUP/SINGLE/MULTI name >>>>> >>>>> Huge thanks to Ilya A. Arkhipov (M1cRO on irc :)) >>>>> >>>>> regards, >>>>> Bapt >>>>> >>>> Thanks a lot for that work to all contributors. I will try this evening and >>>> see how awesome it is :-). >>>> >>>> One questions I have: >>>> >>>> - Does the dialog4ports installation will be triggered in the pkg >>>> autoremove command since it's a leaf. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Demelier David >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> No because it is an explicit installation that is done. >>> >>> regards, >>> Bapt >> How to use it? >> >> I just updated my ports tree and installed it. But it seemed that the >> "make config" command didn't change. > No need to install it manually it will be automatically pulled in and the switch > is automated. > > to make sure it works go to the mail/postfix* and try make config if the output > is ugly then you are not using d4p (ports tree not uptodate enough :)) if it is > pretty then you are using it. > > both uses dialog(3) so the UI is pretty close, just better :) > > regards, > Bapt Thank you! It looks really nice. I accidently got a core dump file named dialog4ports.core when I tried "make config" and was pressing some keys for testing purpose in mail/postfix-current, but I don't know how to reproduce it. How should I deal with the core file? B.R. HU Dong