From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 14:28:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2D1106566C for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 14:28:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67A48FC18 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 14:28:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4RECudV044412; Fri, 27 May 2011 08:12:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p4RECuVJ044409; Fri, 27 May 2011 08:12:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 08:12:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Bernhard Froehlich In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20110523212945.418871CC0B@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 27 May 2011 08:12:56 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VB 4.0.8 is working very well X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:28:14 -0000 On Fri, 27 May 2011, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > How about fixing the option descriptions? I would be glad if some > native speaker could come up with better descriptions that fit into the > maximum length. For now I just try to describe what the options do: > > QT4 QT4 frontend > X11 SDL frontend (required by QT4 frontend) > NLS Native Language Support for the QT4 frontend > DEBUG Additional logging and a lot of asserts > DBUS DBUS+HAL, needed for Host CD/DVD access > PULSEAUDIO PulseAudio sound output > VDE Virtual Distributed Ethernet driver > VNC VNC server support > WEBSERVICE SOAP backend used by eg www/phpvirtualbox Here's a quick try at that. Moved around a little to put the QT4 user interface options together: --- Makefile.orig 2011-05-22 07:51:59.000000000 -0600 +++ Makefile 2011-05-27 08:07:24.000000000 -0600 @@ -57,16 +57,16 @@ VBOX_FRONTENDS= VBoxHeadless VBOX_GUEST_VER= ${PORTVERSION} -OPTIONS= QT4 "Build with QT4 Frontend" on \ +OPTIONS= QT4 "Include QT4 user interface" on \ + X11 "X11 support, required by QT4 user interface" on \ + NLS "Native Language Support for QT4 UI" on \ DEBUG "Build with debugging symbols" off \ - GUESTADDITIONS "Build with Guest Additions" off \ - DBUS "Build with D-Bus and HAL support" on \ - PULSEAUDIO "Build with PulseAudio" off \ - X11 "Build with X11 support" on \ - VDE "Build with VDE support" off \ - VNC "Build with VNC support" off \ - WEBSERVICE "Build Webservice" off \ - NLS "Native language support" on + GUESTADDITIONS "Include Guest Additions" off \ + DBUS "D-Bus/HAL support for host CD/DVD access" on \ + PULSEAUDIO "Include PulseAudio sound output" off \ + VDE "Virtual Distributed Ethernet support" off \ + VNC "VNC support" off \ + WEBSERVICE "SOAP Webservice" off .include