From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 14:38:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE10B1065670; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:38:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7008FC16; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:38:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj16 with SMTP id 16so3530659gwj.13 for ; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:38:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8POurp4wvw25lnhbBHEnar//zmzxMIoYBSY5SiwFEBE=; b=OLWF2vgkOlU6VVNpK6BagdduZxMAKryDLqeqHKpyg7ABsMStUgFbcg9ZrPKQadSEbM tdD16UrlH8uvU+6IqztcLgjoM0vuQqDezRj8EYreK7vP70TgIts6AskWZf7Q4bNTUn3x XIVrrXp+PEqKUAnnkAtrpcdtgtSD8f/UG8cuM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=N00bdTmuMlGDg5i492B3wA8mydbjP7kCqzoDrj5B83G2OkyZKpRpj/j3BrcCepz3ii 78OvCjf+hMQLiOgFz0NoY10+G9FYLp7JfaNdaVwIhAvfK5NprnjwHJEU6IRGiBLoZ8dB FUdPjyLjFL0Us30uc7rtvLKakKz+ZomwWwBH8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.21.17 with SMTP id i17mr3846538icb.263.1289227130198; Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:38:50 -0800 (PST) Sender: baptiste.daroussin@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.69.212 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 06:38:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4CD4602C.2080804@FreeBSD.org> <20101108084958.000042be@unknown> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 15:38:50 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: riw_r2Ic8785_hXLCAwdyjtuH8E Message-ID: From: Baptiste Daroussin To: Garrett Cooper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Doug Barton , Eitan Adler , pav@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed OPTIONS replacement X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:38:52 -0000 2010/11/8 Baptiste Daroussin : >> =A0 =A0There's also option 3, which is: >> >> a. Use the code posted up at http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ >> (GPLed like our copy in base, but whatev). >> b. Implement the missing features there. >> c. Contribute back to someone who's actively working on libdialog. >> >> =A0 =A0I'm just of the opinion that there's little value in BSD licensed >> libdialog to be honest *shrugs*... >> Thanks! >> -Garrett >> > > =A0by the way libdialog is now LGPLv2. > > --- > regards, > Bapt > After invetigating a few on http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ updateing it appears to be a huge work. in fact updating gnu/lib/libdialog and gnu/usr.bin/dialog is pretty easy I got the patch for that if anyone interested. but in base libdialog is also used in at least in sysinstall, sade abd tzsetup and the api of libdialog is completely different between the version we have and the version upstream. The work to ports sysinstall, sade, tzsetup etc will be quite huge. regards, Bapt