From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jul 22 6:35:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE9937B400; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:35:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8A443E5E; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 06:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 440659B3A; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:35:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:35:10 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Simon 'corecode' Schubert Cc: Stijn Hoop , nik@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Neil Blakey-Milner , Will Andrews Subject: Re: Proposed new 'options' target Message-ID: <20020722133510.GR52296@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: Simon 'corecode' Schubert , Stijn Hoop , nik@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Neil Blakey-Milner , Will Andrews References: <20020720162928.GD37802@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20020722074605.GC3222@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <20020722140603.06bc1ae1.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020722140603.06bc1ae1.corecode@corecode.ath.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:06:03PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > actually that's kinda the stuff i thought about and developed yesterday. > problem with your system is that perl is needed. > i'll write a shared lib and a simple C binary that interfaces libdialog. > this should go into the base system then. if people feel like it they > can write arbitary interfaces (qt, gtk, even motif or xaw) and link to > the shared lib which is in base. this way there is a guarranteed chooser > application (from base) and it's extensible. That would be optimal. However, I wouldn't get too excited about putting things in the base system. There's no reason for that to be necessary -- we can simply have bsd.port.mk depend on a port being installed to support this feature. That way, systems that have already been released can have their cake and eat it too. > i've written a config file for my mail/sylpheed-claws port to show how > that options stuff could be done. comments appreciated. > > http://corecode.ath.cx/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports/options/ Looks ok. Though I don't understand the need for a "version" line. What are "sel", "msel", and "text"? Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message