Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:57:13 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ncurses update? Message-ID: <199811060157.JAA08921@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Nov 1998 11:16:23 PST." <199811051916.LAA04119@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > Coming out of a discussion on the -alpha list, I was contacted about > this. We're still at 1.8.6. What's the justification for not > upgrading? I've got a bmaked version running on one of my systems and it has been in that state for quite some time. I find very few problems with it as a result.. One thing I was very much tempted to do was to grab the OpenBSD termcap reader that generates the terminfo style tables that ncurses can use directly. The beauty of that is that the result is both libtermcap and libncurses compatable. The other nice thing it does (I think) is support a terminfo.db file rather than thousands of tiny binary files. So, you can have a text file (just like termcap) and do a cap_mkdb on it for fast lookups. The ncurses version of the termcap reader is pretty rotten (IMHO). It had some 'getcap' compatability code added for 4.4BSD compatability, but then they built in a castrated version of getcap that didn't support .db files etc. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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