Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:27:46 +0100 From: Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports Message-ID: <CA%2Bt49P%2BU9q%2B06nFbEox876ou4vzLEJO1S3_Ui9w3beCgs%2BO_4Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports > tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1) > designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng. > > It uses libdialog (recent version) and extend it with a new widget able to deal > with both normal and radio options in the same window. > > dialog4ports will live forever in ports so that it can easily be updated and get > support for new features on all supported arches at the same time. > > It bundles libdialog on FreeBSD versions that doesn't have a recent libdialog in > base (read 8.x) > > dialog4ports also support a new feature: it has a help dialog to be able to > print a human readable help text if possible. > > Here is a patch to the ports tree that makes it use dialog4ports by default. > What it does is: > When make config is requested and dialog4ports is not installed yet the ports > tree will install dialog4ports first. > > New feature for maintainer, if a pkg-help file is found inside the port > directory then dialog will show to the user a help file is available et propose > him to hint F1 or ^E to show the said help file > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/d4p.diff > > Please test! > > regards, > Bapt I just found a niggle: I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 , NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1, TERM=xterm, and I'm using putty to connect to a FreeBSD-10 machine running a snapshot from february with ports from an hour ago. Putty is set to Translation: UTF-8, and "use unicode line drawing code points". With those settings, dialog gives me nice line drawing characters (for some reason). If I unset NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS, all boxes are drawn using random letters instead. (jlmqx, to be exact.) The problem: ports config dialogs are _always_ drawn with the same random letters, and I haven't found any setting or combination of settings that works. This is probably more of a mis-configuration on my side than a dialog4ports problem, but still - it's slightly odd that it acts different than dialog. :)
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