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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:33:12PM -0700, Seth Woolley wrote:
> Matthew Clark wrote:
> > I recently began trying to improve the net-tools spell by replacing that
> > long list of questions with a dialog.  
> 
> This breaks prometheus' ability to fuzz options easily.  Is there a way 
> to make your changes optional?  I think rather than fixing this problem 
> for one spell we should discuss the CONFIGURE (and DEPENDS) formats in 
> the context of allowing alternative prompts and even the ability to use 
> a make-menuconfig-style menu.

You can override the dialog tool within prometheus' environment such
that it returns randomized answers. You dont actually have to use expect
on top for everything. When I started on it, that was a problem I didnt
think was important to solve. What happens now is it breaks dialog and
so the defaults get chosen whenever theres a menu. Its not a huge deal
so long as the spell understands that dialog exited immediatly and goes
with defaults.


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