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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.




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