From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 7 23:11:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA05381 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA05369 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA03380 (5.65.kiae-1 ); Mon, 8 Apr 1996 08:58:55 +0300 Received: by sovcom.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 8 Apr 96 08:58:55 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01213; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:56:33 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199604080556.JAA01213@astral.msk.su> Subject: Re: termcap/curses vs ncurses To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:56:32 +0400 (MSD) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Apr 8, 96 01:26:38 am" From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов wrote: > > > > curses is dated '94, termcap is dated '93, and I haven't figured > > > out what mytinfo is used for, but its dated '92, while ncurses is being > > > > mytinfo is terminfo emulator. > > > what do you mean by an 'emulator'? does ncurses replace it, or does > it augment ncurses? is there currently any reason to keep it in the > library try? 1.8.6 ncurses can't use termcap directly. 1.9.9 already have mytinfo integrated. > > proper way: > > Pass#1: bring up 1.9.9 ncurses > > Okay, but this has to be brought up with termcap only support, > which to me, means that we are taking a perfectly good library and hacking > to do something that it wasn't meant to do (namely, use termcap) No, it already understand termcap if configured with --with-termcap configure option. Hacking means remove terminfo database support. Better #ifdef'ed, and with configure option so it is a chance to pass it back to maintainers. > > Pass#2: replace mytinfo with fake dummy library > > What code requires mytinfo that mytinfo can't just be removed > from the source tree? Some ports/vendors already knows about mytinfo for FreeBSD. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849