Re: bsdinstall TUI utility

A few days late to this, but I added Xdialog support kind of on a lark 
in the original version of the utility. I don't think anyone has ever 
used it or cared about, and I think it can be nuked without issue.
-nathan

On 5/28/22 17:59, Alfonso S. Siciliano wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> So far I replaced and adapted `dialog` with `bsddialog` in
> bsdinstall/scripts.
> <https://wiki.freebsd.org/RoadmapFromDialogToBSDDialog>
>
>
> Currently, I am addressing the last 4 scripts: auto, bootconfig, keymap,
> and wlanconfig. These scripts use also the $DIALOG variable and some
> "if" to handle Xdialog(1).
> For example 'auto' uses $DIALOG, $USE_XDIALOG, and `dialog`.
>
> * $DIALOG: I seem bsdinstall(8) uses only dialog(1) as TUI utility.
> * I seem bsdconfig(8) does not "call" these 4 scripts, so, probably,
>   Xdialog(1) is not used in this context (that is `bsdconfig -X`).
>
>
> Is there any objection to delete $DIALOG/LGPL-dialog/Xdialog to
> provide only the support for bsddialog(1) in bsdinstall(8)?
>
> I would prefer this solution because I can avoid: to handle some
> dialog/Xdialog/bsddialog command line difference and to hook some
> bsdconfig function built on dialog(1) incompatible with bsddialog(1)
> (for example autosizing, implemented in bsddialog(3) already).
>
>
> Please note these considerations are only for bsdinstall, bsdconfig is
> unchanged.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Alfonso
>