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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] New make config UI
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> 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.

It should probably check for use of 
/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh in /etc/make.conf.  I doubt 
the two will work together.