From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 10:48:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B8D106564A for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:48:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B568B8FC0A for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so4094591bwz.13 for ; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:48:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=CIcW87trovt+kQFf3uFntmcjrGk2PGNHDRNAZ0+kSwE=; b=HsmtuHG9fRBVpvxrgg35d1xZbU/+7APbx0kpdyud3rVYED1Q6WUg4TxDeIS0zpoFD/ 8/GSXLHp/Jjunb5YO38NP9LfkHALgfWmKYft1APZYQc8jV+j/caG1HTk05pcb1IJA6KF +VEI0H/hq64ZpJ4OKtW1FoI4/uE7jvKVo+e2Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=MR2clzxtRpxqs7Gm6qWflOe/bEmyBnWlLC7vtrJ9MiQof9g8PEl6zZz91otuLCjEyO Q+prdpHuZza0/tC5o2risHggd83Z6+2guAIyHOoO6EtsvvvaRtbvhANw1mBrS08eYgen 1HaXtvgYPGyIEpuHXj20haeQoltKrVD2sfo0I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.60.82 with SMTP id o18mr5770246bkh.174.1286102919754; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.97.208 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 03:48:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CA85D92.8070500@bsdforen.de> References: <4C93AA31.5080202@DataIX.net> <20100918223933.GB85995@dragon.NUXI.org> <20101002002605.GA8018@dragon.NUXI.org> <4CA844E5.7060303@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4CA85617.7060503@bsdforen.de> <4CA85D92.8070500@bsdforen.de> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 12:48:39 +0200 Message-ID: From: David DEMELIER To: Dominic Fandrey Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: OPTIONS X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:48:42 -0000 2010/10/3 Dominic Fandrey : > On 03/10/2010 12:29, David DEMELIER wrote: >> 2010/10/3 Dominic Fandrey : >>> On 03/10/2010 11:45, David DEMELIER wrote: >>>> 2010/10/3 Matthew Seaman : >>>> I don't want something complex, checkbox, textbox, radiobuttons is enough. >>> >>> Textbox is _very_ complex. Think of all the code you'd have to >>> add to ports to check what was entered by the user. >>> At the very least you have to verify that whatever was provided >>> is valid. For the feature not to become annoying you'd have to >>> be a lot more fuzzy and complex, though. >>> >> >> What do you mean by valid? In the way that the user can't insert any >> no alpha-numeric characters or an entry that is only valid to the >> application ? >> > > Text fields are arbitrary and you'd probably want to limit it to > a specific purpose, like a list of languages. > > So is de_* an acceptable language? Do you delimit with space, pipe > or semicolon? Do people really want to be bothered with learning > the specific syntax of your ports text input fields? > In the openoffice ports you have LOCALIZED_LANG knob, I needed to check which kind of delimiters was needed and it's a space, so delimit by space is enough. -- Demelier David