On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

Hi all,

Since the work on the new options framework has been started more than 2 years
ago, we faced a problem with the make config interface.

dialog(1) is too limited to be able to represent in a simple UI all the features
proposed by the new framework.

The idea of writing a new UI was born at that time, eadler step in and wrote a
first attempt called dialog4ports using ncurses, but never get into completion.

A few month ago Ilya A. Arkhipov decided to jump in that problem and restart
from scratch a new version of dialog4ports, with the help of danfe, eadler and
I.

The new version is based on dialog(3), adding to it a new widget (which is
planned to be contributed upstream) and a new UI using that widget.

After months of thinking/coding/testing we have been able to switch to this new
UI and get rid of the old dialog(1) for make config.

It should probably check for use of /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/dialogwrapper.sh in /etc/make.conf. I doubt the two will work together.
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