From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 15 23:28:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498C137B422 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CEF5F1C6F; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:28:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:28:36 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for libtermcap ressurection from the dead Message-ID: <20000916022836.X47559@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000916042341.A95164@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000916042341.A95164@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:23:42AM +0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 04:23:42AM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > Avdantages: > > 1) We'll be 100%-compatible with all libtermcap programs again. > 2) Save LOTS of space for static binaries since libtermcap is extremally > small. > > Opinions? I don't object. The namespace collisions in src/games with ncurses functions are really, really bad, and though just not linking to ncurses is sort of a hackish fix, this would at least mask the problems until further into the future when I have time to change function names. :-> -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message