Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:20:08 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports Message-ID: <20130317152007.GE72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <5145DE2C.40302@executive-computing.de> References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303170846130.8399@wonkity.com> <20130317151102.GD72627@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <5145DE2C.40302@executive-computing.de>
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--k3qmt+ucFURmlhDS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 04:15:56PM +0100, Marco Steinbach wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin wrote on 17.03.2013 16:11: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:56:13AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > >> > >>> Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into th= e ports > >>> tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement fo= r dialog(1) > >>> designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng. > >> My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are= =20 > >> not supported. We really need this. A maintainer should be concerned= =20 > >> with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length a= t=20 > >> the cost of clarity. The user should not have to interpret short or= =20 > >> cut-off option descriptions. > >=20 > > pkg-help might help here in the first place, second this could be worke= d on for > > a 0.2 version ;), have you tried anyway long description with this vers= ion? I > > think they just works correctly, but I haven't tested. >=20 > I tried. They get truncated, instead of overflowing and hosing the layou= t. >=20 > MfG CoCo >=20 Ok thanks let's push this feature request for 0.2 then regards, Bapt --k3qmt+ucFURmlhDS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlFF3ycACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzPhwCfb7NQcIFwxI1u99Gi1c0xR5V5 LLcAoK6xfKlDH5sXJKW9NssCwvDid8Jf =o90x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k3qmt+ucFURmlhDS--
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