Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 19:50:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why are we still using ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408194701.235A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19980408125035.19462@worldgate.com>
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Greg Skafte wrote:
> Outta curiosity why are we still using the 1.8.6 version of ncurses
> when there is 4.2.x out and has been for a while .... its been
> a nagging thorn to most of us mutt fanatics ....
4.2.x hasn't been "officially" out for that long...
> yes I know I can compile my own copy but its a pain maintaining 2 versions
> of ncurses and I don't want to replace it out of simple fear of all the
> other things that might break ...
There is an ncurses port submission which I don't think has been
committed, yet. I'm not sure that it's for the 4* version, but
perhaps the maintainer of mutt should make mutt depend on it.
Even with ncurses 4* in the system, we always strip a fair bit of
stuff out of it...
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tIM...HOEk
OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names
hoping that the resultant code will run faster.
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