From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 5 19:10:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA00827 for current-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:10:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00820 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 19:10:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.2]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id WAA13866; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:11:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id WAA01227; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:11:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 22:11:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can we upgrade ncurses? In-Reply-To: <199604060009.EAA02916@astral.msk.su> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, [KOI8-R] =E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA =FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7 wrote: > > =09Is there any underlying reason why we can't upgrade Ncurses > > from 1.8.4 (circa 1994) to 1.9.9e (circa current)? > > There the reasons: > Ncurses before 1.9.9 was too buggy. > Righgt now I not yet find enough time to do that. > > > =09If its a matter of someone integrating...I raise my hand... > > for me it means that its one less thing I have to remember not to > > install when I do a make world, so its worth my time commiting an > > upgrade and maintaining the library :) > > OK from me, but please keep in mind following things: > It must be configured for termcap-only, no fallback to terminfo: =09Oh...I was going to do it the opposite way *hang head* =09Just curious (I'll work on it as termcap-only), but what exactly is the difference between termcap and terminfo, and pros/cons of each? > one terminal database must exists in the system. > BSD tputs glitch must be turned on. > Mytinfo library must be replaced with empty library for a while (for > compatibility). > Next step will be replacing curses library with ncurses. > =09replace with or get rid of libcurses? I currently have ncurses installed on both my -stable and -current machines with the symlink from libncurses to libcurses. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc