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> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimJS%2Bd-h6ub6Q_Ff7vX134exr-7s73o=%2BjY4af%2B@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikV4nCaZeFH-OEq94LXHikibitcyv%2BVPnGH8TFt@mail.gmail.com> <4CD4602C.2080804@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTi=9-tgiH2QH7wODncG8D9aw_z2guSUNQK_pajkF@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimJS%2Bd-h6ub6Q_Ff7vX134exr-7s73o=%2BjY4af%2B@mail.gmail.com>
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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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