Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 15:24:36 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Move from termcap(5) to terminfo(5) Message-ID: <20200507132436.x6gzrtqls7grwbik@ivaldir.net> In-Reply-To: <f0d055f4-8529-bfd5-ea7c-7cbc210b97da@FreeBSD.org> References: <20200507124126.g4z5op4cyv45pmxn@ivaldir.net> <f0d055f4-8529-bfd5-ea7c-7cbc210b97da@FreeBSD.org>
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--uk33hxiyeltbz75r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 03:22:20PM +0200, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On 5/7/20 2:41 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > >=20 > > I can't find any proper rationale in our history (maybe I missed it) wh= ich > > explains why our ncurses is stuck on using termcap(5) instead of termin= fo(5) > > Except an argument in the Makefile that builds ncurses: > > "Used instead of the hideous read_termcap.c abomination." > >=20 > > Which I do not find really useful. > >=20 > > 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 an= d to > > add and use tic(1). > That's great! I've been bitten by termcap not being well understood by the > open source community many times. I am supporting the move to terminfo > wholeheartedly. > > 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. >=20 > What comes to my mind is that we should probably pay special attention to > terminal ports, like x11/sterm. We might need to tell those ports to inst= all > their terminfo files. I don't remember the details though. >=20 All their terminfo files are already in recent ncurses, so we will have not= hing to do with them. Best regards, Bapt --uk33hxiyeltbz75r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEgOTj3suS2urGXVU3Y4mL3PG3PloFAl60DBQACgkQY4mL3PG3 PlquyBAArPL9iiECOIF+A5v1IZO+/sus/1HAffq+BLkuj/p4q0RRU3ju89nW+xml mMHD31aGT2qmH5bnD1xaTiLnErHSLWW8cnYaWBlAI2DxJmmqclDAHiCCyb1VXK7e t+6LGIPLhOHF01ngy+PkuZ4SXFxRqrkiZNMThy8/sHR0EAz/eLrknWEAe8g2+tk8 i8e3Indw9fHRY9lSg2mizNjGFOPaWcDudkHyuq7Z2VvuVCFIHs9WcVi8CvIodwts TTXYYGiMnPoCWrlLgqkgT4zwFjk9X9tc1I46ZOS7GDc7JVCCZBm8Pp+kqaTQsMUi JRqcvC+Oa2OZ1/JwYPjTAj5POa3bvWt2LOQ49iNOaQ4GkhQzUQ6sqyQRKotZIYUH Tb7ii58B/w54KjYjpJK1avCvam/A3W678BrmF1tnZn0nNlCzL0uFyA5gFPearBvF FfHcmyVJV0uEkkLHEnTgsGfOdgYOSKXo2d7oCpcOMOqRtYsxv3yTWwxDIViX/0m/ cXV9sUzQlh2kDEIJAU58SuuFxF9Q12FKCTENc39rkdbbr+YoVvox1t+htuvr9B4c iJ7GDxooWH0Q7sdGyK0LXMTt72t6ow4RX75VuohZ40dISFX71vS97ufartMthhhb f4hrw2Kopmyrrp+LaX2B1AQxXEcRVijLzuqxQQaV7Nsbsydn3fk= =eQek -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uk33hxiyeltbz75r--
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