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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 22:06:42 -0400
From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com>
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Cc: peter@freebsd.org
Subject: Updating ncurses in base
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Hi,

[I'm also CC'ed peter@ since he is the maintainer of ncurses in base]

As you may know, the current ncurses in the base system is rather old
(it is 4 years old). I have been working on updating ncurses to the latest
version 5.5 and enable wide character as default. I have put the description,
goal, issues, current status, and tarball for test at the following URL:

http://www.rafan.org/FreeBSD/ncurses/

I use the updated ncurses on my 7-CURRENT for sometime, everything
works well. As I note in that page, there are some issues related to building
framework of libncurses and related libraries. I hope there are some
experienced people here can show me which way is most likely to be
included in the base system.

In addition to those issues, I hope some of you can test it and feedback.
I really would like to see ncurses in base is updated in the near future.

Regards,
Rong-En Fan