From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 11 01:38:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA24491 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:38:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from d198-232.uoregon.edu (d198-232.uoregon.edu [128.223.198.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA24486 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mini@d198-232.uoregon.edu) Received: (from mini@localhost) by d198-232.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA17394; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:37:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971211013734.16942@micron.mini.net> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 01:37:34 -0800 From: Jonathan Mini To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Jonathan Mini , The Classiest Man Alive , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? Reply-To: Jonathan Mini References: <19971210234909.29178@micron.mini.net> <25819.881832847@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <25819.881832847@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:34:07AM -0800 X-files: The Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Bite all of the bullet at once on this issue, I say! :-) Very cool. Much deleted in this repsonse, others forthcoming to touch the other relevant issues. > > 3) Then I get to actually write the database-handling code, and the > > GUI to deal with it. If you don't mind, I indent to not use > > libdialog. :) > > If you'd said that you were, I'd have felt it my duty to recommend > strongly against it. :-) Excellent that we are of the same opinion. I have heard you complain before about libdialog. If I were to write another (smaller, and more acceptable) CUI would you be interested in using it in sysinstall also? I ask this because I'd like to see the same UI look-and-feel between those two applications. Perhaps a new line of 'system configuration' applications is somewhere in the future... -- Jonathan Mini Ingenious Productions Software Development P.O. Box 5693, Eugene, Or. 97405 "A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."