Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:32:59 +0400 From: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> To: "Jordan Hubbard" <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog. Message-ID: <001401c10535$847748a0$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> References: <01c201c10468$b6a71e40$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <20010704120221B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.hackers Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:05 PM Subject: Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog. > I suppose that depends on how you define "future." Do we want to > be using libdialog in the year 2010? No, I would certainly hope > something better will have arrived by then. Do we have anything > better now or in the forseeable next 12 months? No also. > I don't mean this at all, I just wanted to know if somebody improve/patch/develop libdialog, or if somebody is going to remove and add another compatible library with libdialog to FreeBSD. Nobody (I at least) knows what will be in future. > Oh yeah, and I might as well take this opportunity to state this for > the public record: I DID NOT WRITE THAT EVIL THING. :-) > It was written by some guy in Hong Kong and extended by the slackware > folks. I just added the callback mechanism stuff so that the objects > weren't just "blobs" with no access to internal state transitions. I think that it is useful and simple library, I used dialog(1) in Perl script to get menu-like dialog. Unfortunatelly there are too many bugs in it and almost every line of source must be checked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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