From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 9 10:23:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26502 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA26497 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id NAA22796; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:22:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id NAA09620; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:24:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 13:24:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Richard J Kuhns cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libncurses 1.9.9e ready to commit In-Reply-To: <199604091515.KAA03884@sparcmill.grauel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > I need (well, I really really want) terminfo support, so I hope you can > and do commit it with terminfo available. I *use*, on mulitple platforms, > some of the standard capabilities terminfo supports for printers. > Currently, part of my "standard configuration" for a new FreeBSD system is > to rebuild libmytinfo with terminfo support; I can then use the same code > under SVR4, Solaris, and FreeBSD. > > I see no problem with having 2 potential sources of terminal/printer info; > if you want to make sure you're using the termcap version (for example), > just mv the terminfo file out of the way (or set TERMINFO to /tmp). > well, looks like I have one person that understands my point of view on this :) In order to get the library to the point that it compiles and installs correctly, I did exactly that. I moved /usr/lib/terminfo out of the way so that it forced itself to use termcap. terminfo isn't installed on a standard FreeBSD system, so unless someone *wants* to use terminfo, and installs it manually, its going to use termcap... But I don't believe that we should be disabling functionality in a library that some ppl will want (and are) using because others don't want it. It doesn't save *that* much space overall, and it makes it all the harder to upgrade the library at a later date (look at the argument about binutils...) Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc