Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-11 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 6/11/2012 2:03 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: > That's a nice idea, how do you make it work with dialog? >>> >>> No idea, this is still the design phase. :) Actually, a message I >>> now can't find suggested that dialog may be able to do it unchanged. >>

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: Here is a patch to do it. To use, apply patch. Pick a port and edit the option descriptions to be longer than 49 characters. Then run 'make config'. Notes: This patch only does descriptions for the plain options right now. Changes to the multi and

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-11 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: That's a nice idea, how do you make it work with dialog? No idea, this is still the design phase. :) Actually, a message I now can't find suggested that dialog may be able to do it unchanged. Followup: dialog --item-help \ --checklist "Contrived op

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-10 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:00:05PM +0300, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > There was a PR[1] to use some dialog(1) feature to expose it to > > the user, would be nice if that extended description could > > implemented that way (using help button from dialog(1)) I do not > > pl

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-10 Thread Vitaly Magerya
Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > There was a PR[1] to use some dialog(1) feature to expose it to > the user, would be nice if that extended description could > implemented that way (using help button from dialog(1)) I do not > plan to work on this now if someone want to do it that will be > great > > 1

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/09/2012 17:54, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote: Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine. For those on -ports,

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/09/2012 18:10, Warren Block wrote: >> That's a nice idea, how do you make it work with dialog? > > No idea, this is still the design phase. :) Actually, a message I now > can't find suggested that dialog may be able to do it unchanged. We have a solution that unquestionably will work, now.

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/09/2012 17:54, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote: Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine. For those on -ports, the context is, "How do we provide more in

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/09/2012 17:54, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote: >>> Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine. >> >> For those on -ports, the context is, "How do we provide more information >> about what the va

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote: Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine. For those on -ports, the context is, "How do we provide more information about what the various options mean?" This idea seems reasonable to me, w

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 09:35:12AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote: > > Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine. > > For those on -ports, the context is, "How do we provide more information > about what the various options mean?" This i

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On 06/09/2012 11:35 AM, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote: Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine. For those on -ports, the context is, "How do we provide more information about what the various options mean?" This idea seems reasonable to me

Re: Documenting 'make config' options

2012-06-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/06/2012 22:27, Dave Hayes wrote: > Personally, a 'pkg-options-descr' text file would suit me just fine. For those on -ports, the context is, "How do we provide more information about what the various options mean?" This idea seems reasonable to me, what do others think? Doug -- This