Re: [rox-devel] Loosing control

[Jonatan L. <th...@ho...>]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:28:50 -0800
Ken Hayber <kh...@so...> wrote:

> On Mar 27, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Jonatan Liljedahl wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:02:41 +1200
> > Alastair Porter <ala...@li...> wrote:
> >
> >>> Well, that's different to different programs... enable/disable
> >>> features,
> >>> etc...
> >>> But as Peter said, this is probably only for non-ROX programs
> >>> repackaged as appdirs.
> >>> And those could have a "AppRun --compile <configure options>"
> >>> syntax...
> >>  Hmm, if you knew what the options were, you could always pop up a
> >>  pymessage box asking for the options and the pass them to
> >>  ./configure... This would actually be quite cool :-D
> >
> > Yes, that would be very nice! So instead of just popping up an xterm
> > 
> > and
> > compiling, it would pop up a pymessage box with an input widget:
> > "Optional options for configure" and a button to open a window
> > listing the available options (configure --help).
> 
> Go further!  Call 'configure --help >somefile', parse the options, 
> build a Dialog with checkboxes and such for each option, save the 
> selected ones to a configure.cfg file and pass that to configure via 
> 'configure <configure.cfg'

Yeah! that would be a nice thing for non-AppDirs too, a GUI frontend for
configure scripts!

/Jonatan
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