From owner-freebsd-ports Thu May 4 12: 9:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F9537BAE8; Thu, 4 May 2000 12:09:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12nQzX-0006Gi-00; Thu, 04 May 2000 21:08:55 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 21:08:55 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: portconf (was: Re: stop complaining about x11 please (was: Re: Why does PORTS SUCK so BADLY!?)) Message-ID: <20000504210855.B23799@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000504152042.B19808@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from dhesi@rahul.net on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:57:03AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-05-04 (11:57), Rahul Dhesi wrote: > Does the portconf system have the same requirements as your > web URL, i.e., that a graphical display be in use? No, it has two console interfaces (one perl/dialog, one c/libdialog) and a gtk interface. It's written hopefully that anyone can write an interface to it. That said, I now think xml was a mistake, and I may rewrite using a simpler-to-parse format. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Joker In Chief, Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message