17:42 <midfavila> anyone here play around with dialog(1) much?

17:45 <midfavila> something i've been thinking about is ~~shamelessly ripping off~~ taking inspiration from xdialog and writing something similar using athena, with robert falk's extensions

17:48 <midfavila> i'd *like* to maintain compatibility, but it would also be nice to, i dunno, maybe try and make some extensions

17:48 <midfavila> like it would be super cool for example if i could somehow get falk's tabbing widget to support swallowing other windows via xembed

17:50 <midfavila> could replace a lot of the standard X distribution's utilities too...

17:50 <midfavila> for example, xmessage, xman, xmore, etc

17:51 <midfavila> i can't imagine it would be too difficult. xdialog itself is only like 5k lines of C in total

23:21 <dery> just found out that xfs supports (some) CoW semantics

23:23 <dery> thinking of unironically switching to that as I use ccache lots

23:23 <dery> midfavila: I recall you talking a lot about XFS, is it good? Like, can I assume that it's reasonably plug-n-play and stable like ext4?

23:24 <dery> btrfs is more full-featured (snapshots look tasty) but it feels a bit more maintenance heavy just like zfs. at least it's mainline

23:27 <dery> FTR I actually confirmed that ccache supports reflinks, which make copies pretty much instantaneous at the cost of disabling cached object compression