Hi all,

I have some questions about dialog program included in Slackware.
* Why is it build as part of pkgtools instead of stand-alone package?
* Why there is only dialog program without libraries that could be linked
in other C programs? (they must be compiled from source)
* Why Pat is using old 0.9b version released on December 2003 rather than
newer that is included e.g. in Debian (1.0, 2005-06-06)?

I know, this questions should be asked to Pat directly but maybe some kind
person here could help me.


Mateusz

Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote :

> .
> * Why is it build as part of pkgtools instead of stand-alone package?

A guess. Patrick uses dialog in his pkgtools script so he wants to be
sure that dialog is present when the pkgtools package is installed.

> * Why Pat is using old 0.9b version released on December 2003 rather than
> newer that is included e.g. in Debian (1.0, 2005-06-06)?

Because he lives in the present not in the future. OK. Another guess,
version 0.9b is the latest independent release and the Debian version
you are referring to is Debian's own brew.
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Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some questions about dialog program included in Slackware.
> * Why is it build as part of pkgtools instead of stand-alone package?
> * Why there is only dialog program without libraries that could be linked
> in other C programs? (they must be compiled from source)
> * Why Pat is using old 0.9b version released on December 2003 rather than
> newer that is included e.g. in Debian (1.0, 2005-06-06)?
>
> I know, this questions should be asked to Pat directly but maybe some kind
> person here could help me.
>
>
> Mateusz

Just semantics.

"Monolog"= one person talking to himself.
"Dialog"=two people talking to themselves.

Hope this clears the confusion.

Have fun.

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

Thomas Overgaard <thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote:

>> * Why Pat is using old 0.9b version released on December 2003 rather than
>> newer that is included e.g. in Debian (1.0, 2005-06-06)?

> Because he lives in the present not in the future. OK. Another guess,
> version 0.9b is the latest independent release and the Debian version
> you are referring to is Debian's own brew.

They are both snapshots of the code that I maintain:

http://invisible-island.net/dialog/

so you haven't actually answered the question.

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On Sun, 08 May 2005 10:54:37 -0000, dickey@saltmine.radix.net wrote:

Hi

> They are both snapshots of the code that I maintain:
>
> http://invisible-island.net/dialog/

You should just let him know that a newer version of dialog is available.

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Stuart Winter <use.reply.to@interlude.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 May 2005 10:54:37 -0000, dickey@saltmine.radix.net wrote:

> Hi

>> They are both snapshots of the code that I maintain:
>>
>> http://invisible-island.net/dialog/

> You should just let him know that a newer version of dialog is available.

He's on the list of email addresses that I notify on each release.

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Thomas Dickey wrote :

> They are both snapshots of the code that I maintain:
>
I did a bit of googling but your site didn't show up, all I did find was
a long list of Debian sites.
>
> so you haven't actually answered the question.

As i wrote; It was a guess but based on what I saw in google and I
think OP knew that was about the best he could get in this group.
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Thomas Overgaard <thover@post2.tele.dk> wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote :

>> They are both snapshots of the code that I maintain:
>>
> I did a bit of googling but your site didn't show up, all I did find was
> a long list of Debian sites.

"dialog" is hard to search for (true). Besides that, "ncdialog" and "cdialog"
are possibilities.

Anyway, more than Debian does package one of the snapshots from my site.
Besides Slackware and Debian, I know that Redhat does (though of course
they don't use it in their installs). Also SuSE (20040316), and some
less well-known ones.

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