From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 1 23:25:27 2004 Return-Path: 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 1778E16A4CF for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:25:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EAD043D64 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:25:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 11683 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2004 23:25:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 1 Aug 2004 23:25:24 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040B433A; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 02:25:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (it.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89502-07; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 02:25:19 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 28EECB0; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 02:25:19 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 02:25:18 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Miguel Mendez Message-Id: <20040802022518.7d43013e@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20040802003354.35998337.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <20040802003354.35998337.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making OPTIONS a bit more flexible X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 23:25:27 -0000 On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:33:54 +0200 Miguel Mendez wrote: > Hi, > > I remember reading something about a options-ng thing, so maybe this > is already being addressed. IMHO it would be interesting to have a > more flexible options system that could let us, for example (see > attached patch) build exclusive options menus, where the user shall > choose just 1 option. The attached patch adds that functionality. The only problem is that generally you have some sets of exclusive options, e.g. (A or B) and (C or D or F). > The main problem I see is that dialog itself is pretty limited in what > it can do, perhaps we could extend dialog a bit as well? You pin-pointed very well the problem :) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"