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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:21:14 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org>
Cc:        babt@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, pav@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed OPTIONS replacement
Message-ID:  <20101108082114.00002050@unknown>
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:33:48 -0800
Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> wrote:

> >From what I understand - and someone please correct me if I'm wrong -
> ports and sysinstall are the only tools I know of in base that make
> all that much use of libdialog. There are bugs in libdialog (and
> brucec@ probably has more info on this than me) that need fixing. If
> someone was willing to work on a new libdialog and fix these bugs, I'd
> be willing to work on updating sysinstall's dialog calls with any
> necessary changes.

There are lots of bugs in libdialog and I agree that a BSD licensed
replacement would be a good thing but there's already a newer version
of libdialog waiting for us to import - and it's still being actively
developed. http://invisible-island.net/dialog/CHANGES shows how many
changes have been made since  we imported it 15 years ago.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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