Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:57:52 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5) Message-ID: <20200507125752.OhGX4%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <20200507124126.g4z5op4cyv45pmxn@ivaldir.net> References: <20200507124126.g4z5op4cyv45pmxn@ivaldir.net>
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Just my one cent. Baptiste Daroussin wrote in <20200507124126.g4z5op4cyv45pmxn@ivaldir.net>: |I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) which |explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of terminf\ |o(5) ... |I would like to make the move from termcap to terminfo which would \ |give us the |bonus to be able to track terminfo sources from upstream aka ncurses and to |add and use tic(1). | |Given the very few people that are actually maintaining the termcap \ |database. I |don't think there is a good rationale at keeping our own format (as \ |far as I |know everyone moved to terminfo(5)) and parser. | |Without any strong arguments against it I will start working on that \ |move by |next week. | |If you have some knowledge you want to share: "be careful about this \ |or that" I |would be more than happy to collect it, to make sure the transition \ |is as smooth |as possible. If termcap is implemented by means of termcap and not by means of internally converting termcap to curses which then does the job, then termcap is a very small library and the terminal descriptions almost as powerful. They miss some keys, otherwise i do not know what they miss. Otherwise termcap is terribly expensive and my MUA tries to go for -ltinfo before falling back to -lcurses or -lcursesw. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
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