From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 15:09:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727161065672; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:09:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 461938FC16; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0227246B39; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:09:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EF108A027; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:09:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 07:54:38 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20101102; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <4D25136A.4070107@freebsd.org> <20110106110927.GA75316@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20110106110927.GA75316@owl.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101060754.38140.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:09:06 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.3 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:09:07 -0000 On Thursday, January 06, 2011 6:09:27 am Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:57:14PM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base > > system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey > > (http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is a > > much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the > > creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new > > versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better > > license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2). > > > > Patches to effect the import can be found at: > > - http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/libdialog-update.diff > > > > What the patches do: > > - Replaces dialog(1) with a new version. All command-line options of the > > old dialog except --fstree are accepted by the new dialog, and the ports > > options framework continues to work without modification. > > - Renames libdialog to libodialog (old dialog). The new dialog library > > has a much more pleasant API than the old one -- which directly implies > > that it has a substantially different API. Until sysinstall, sade, and > > tzsetup are replaced or rewritten, we need to keep the old library around. > > - Modifies sysinstall, sade, and tzsetup to link to libodialog instead > > of libdialog. > > - Deletes all man pages and examples associated with libodialog. This is > > deprecated code. > > - Installs new dialog library as libdialog > > - Bumps __FreeBSD_version to 900030 > > Are there any ports which link to the old version of libdialog, and if > so, what will happen to them? I think we should probably work on porting the existing libdialog consumers in the tree to the new version and then retire libodialog completely. We could then have a port of the old library for any ports that need it. -- John Baldwin