From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 5 3:43:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [212.111.192.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7136037B406 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 03:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua) Received: from comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (eth0.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [10.0.1.184]) by relay1.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025FA2F090; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:42:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: from pm5149 (pm514-9.comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua [10.18.54.109]) by comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f65Aa1A22620; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:36:17 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <001401c10535$847748a0$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> From: "Andrey Simonenko" To: "Jordan Hubbard" Cc: References: <01c201c10468$b6a71e40$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <20010704120221B.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Status of dialog(1) and libdialog. Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:32:59 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Jordan Hubbard 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