From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 16:31:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA01427 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 16:31:33 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (jeffh@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA01419; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 16:31:29 -0800 Received: by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12354; Tue, 28 Mar 95 19:31:17 EST Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 19:31:15 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. In-Reply-To: <210.796430925@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > "bloating", as Terry and Paul T. would put it, of /usr/src). This > means that perl is fine and libforms are fine and libdialog/dialog are > fine, etc. What version of perl will ship with 2.1? If it is version 5, then I will port Pearl Vision over to FreeBSD, which is a pretty slick pearl extension that puts dialog to shame (IMHO). Dialog is cool, but it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth for some reason. One thing that I think would be ultimately cool is a progress bar for the package installations. Maybe by hacking some of the common tools it would be possible to get them to relay information to the install as to how far they are in the stream. I don't have a whole lot of experience in this area, so if I'm suggesting the impossible just tell me so. What is forms/libforms? I've never heard of it/used it before. Jeff -- Jeff Hoffman -- jeffh@cybernetics.net ------------------------------------- "A man facing the light looks not into sorrow, but to to the future...always." WWW: http://www.cybernetics.net/users/jeffh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Public Key available on request.