New versions for some programs

[Terry Chan]

Florin,

I did take a look at dialog-0.9b-20030130, when you first proposed it
to the mailing list and I posted an email reply to the rest of the lunar devs,
but I didn't send it to the regular mailing list. 

We will NOT be upgrading to dialog-0.9b-20030130, because while it does
compile okay, it does not behave identically to the older version of dialog
that is currently in moonbase.  If you run the "lunar" program and bring up
some of the dialog generated selection boxes, you'll see that the new dialog
you are using is truncating text on the right hand side.

This is due to a change in the auto-size calculations/routines that dialog is
using.  To switch now would require one of the lunar devs to go through all
the lunar core tools and fix every occurrence of dialog being invoked.

Eventually we should probably switch over, but until all the occurrences of
dialog are fixed for the new math calculations, it will be a rather large task
to convert for the small bug-fixes/enhancements in the newer dialog.

On grep, that should be in moonbase shortly.  We just can't version bump it so
randomly as grep does need to be tested a bit, especially since its used all
over the Lunar core toolset.

Terry Chan
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:56:31AM -0800, Florin Braescu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have installed some new bumped versions for some
> programs in moonbase. Some of them are more than two
> weeks old, proposed previously and still not present
> in the current moonbase. All of them compile, install
> and run just fine. These are the proposals:
> 
> ftp/curl                   -> 7.10.3
> utils/dialog               -> 0.9b-20030130
> printer/espgs              -> 7.05.6
> printer/hpijs              -> 1.3.1
> libs/gmp                   -> 4.1.2
> libs/libxslt               -> 1.0.26
> utils/grep                 -> 2.5.1
> news/pan2                  -> 0.13.3.92
> devel/pkgconfig            -> 0.15.0
> sql/postgresql             -> 7.3.2
> x11-apps/qcad              -> 1.5.4 (maybe kde3-apps
> is more likely)
> graphics/xscreensaver      -> 4.07
> gnome2-extras/xscreensaver -> 4.07 (this ask in a pure
> gnome2 environment for kde, and fails to install :()
> gnome/intltool             -> 0.25  (maybe libs
> directory is more appropiate)
> gnome/libxml2              -> 2.5.3 (why don't we move
> it to libs directory, where libxslt is?)
> 
> I want to mention that I use for about a week the alsa
> 0.9.0rc7 packages with no problems at all.
> 
> For the scrollkeeper package I found this form for
> DEPENDS file whitch is more suitable for gnome2 (does
> not depend of deprecated libxml library):
> 
> ---> DEPENDS file for scrollkeeper
> depends  libxml2         &&
> depends  intltool        &&
> depends  libxslt         &&
> depends  docbook-dtd-xml
> --->
> 
> Please give a try for these proposals.
> 
> Regards,
>   Florin