On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
(Please keep me CC'd, as I'm not subscribed to the list)
2. ports/KNOBS is very explicit in stating, and even visually
demonstrating (using pipe symbols to delimit length maximums and so
on), the following:
# - Knob description must be 45 characters or less
Yet, a very good number of descriptions violate this (see the file for
yourself). I'm inclined to think the limit is to be extra friendly
towards 80-column terminals, but I'm still not sure. Is this
45-character-limit untrue, or are numerous descriptions blatantly too
long?
On the older version of dialog(1) included with 8.x, longer descriptions
trigger a bug that messes up the displayed menu. As an example, try a
'make config' on security/tripwire.
We should not limit the length of descriptions, many of which are
already less than helpful to the user.
I wrote a wrapper script for dialog(1) that addresses the length
problem, truncating long descriptions on 8.x and showing them in full on
9.x. It also makes the menu take advantage of larger terminals, showing
more of the descriptions and more lines:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/dialogwrapper/
It makes no changes to ports or ports infrastructure. However, so far
there has been very little feedback.
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